A Precisely Measurable Triumph.

Google's doodle today is:

The caption to this photograph, from Wikipedia's "polio vaccine" page, reads:

"Jonas Salk administers his polio vaccine on February 26, 1957 in the Commons Room of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh where the vaccine was created by Salk and his team."

There was a time. There was a time when this nation, and the world, turned its attention, and its hopes, to Pitt.