Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Whatever Happened to Polio?
Online exhibit commemorates the discovery of the polio vaccine. Includes a timelined history of the disease, beginning with the first clinical description of polio by British physician Michael Underwood. Inquiries into the research to...
University of California
Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies: Wendell Meredith Stanley
The University of California, Berkeley provides a good biography of Nobel Prize winner, Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904-1971). This site gives information on his research on the crystallization of viruses.
PBS
People and Discoveries: Salk Produces Polio Vaccine 1952
At this site read about Jonas Salk's efforts to prevent the polio virus, which resulted in the creation of the first polio vaccine and in Albert Sabin's research into making a more effective means of preventing the disease.