It was to be called the "Pitt Vaccine."
He came from the east. Jonas Salk came from New York and he came west looking for a laboratory of his own. Pitt gave it to him. He wanted complete control and went on national radio and preempted JAMA's publication of the scientific paper written by him and his Pitt team. "The Scientist Speaks for Himself," was precisely what his career became. It was the "Salk Vaccine" after the the scientist spoke for himself and at the conference at the University of Michigan where the trials were deemed a success he credited none of his Pitt colleagues by name.
He left Pitt when Chancellor Edward Litchfield wouldn't give him total independence from the university for a proposed new mega-lab and in 1960 the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, producer of eight Nobel Laureates was created, in LaJolla California.
He came from the east. Jonas Salk came from New York and he came west looking for a laboratory of his own. Pitt gave it to him. He wanted complete control and went on national radio and preempted JAMA's publication of the scientific paper written by him and his Pitt team. "The Scientist Speaks for Himself," was precisely what his career became. It was the "Salk Vaccine" after the the scientist spoke for himself and at the conference at the University of Michigan where the trials were deemed a success he credited none of his Pitt colleagues by name.
He left Pitt when Chancellor Edward Litchfield wouldn't give him total independence from the university for a proposed new mega-lab and in 1960 the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, producer of eight Nobel Laureates was created, in LaJolla California.
