Who discovered the Polio Vaccine?

A. Jonas Salk
B. Jaber Ibn Hayan
C. Selman Waksman
D. None of these

Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin. In the 1950s Salk and Sabin developed separate vaccines—one from killed virus and the other from live virus—to combat the dreaded disease polio. Jonas Salk became a national hero when he allayed the fear of polio with his vaccine, approved in 1955.