# Jonas Salk (@jonas-salk)

Jonas Salk was a physician and virologist. Salk's team developed an injected vaccine using inactivated poliovirus; a vast 1954 field trial found it effective and it was licensed in 1955.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Jonas Salk's public record._

## Topics

- [The Salk Institute](/@jonas-salk/the-salk-institute.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [A Collective Campaign](/@jonas-salk/a-collective-campaign.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Inactivated Polio Vaccine](/@jonas-salk/inactivated-polio-vaccine.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.salk.edu/about/history-of-salk/jonas-salk/
- blog: https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/jonas-salk-and-albert-bruce-sabin/
- blog: https://www.cdc.gov/polio/about/index.html

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "jonas-salk", "question": "…"}`.