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    Frederick Chapman Robbins

    Frederick Chapman Robbins (August 25, 1916 –


    August 4, 2003) was an American pediatrician and Frederick Chapman Robbins
    virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew
    up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H.
    Hickman High School.

    He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine


    in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas
    Huckle Weller, making Robbins the only Nobel
    laureate born in Alabama. The award was for
    breakthrough work in isolating and growing the
    poliovirus in tissue culture, paving the way for
    vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. He
    attended the University of Missouri and Harvard
    University.

    In 1952, he was appointed professor of pediatrics at


    Case Western Reserve University.[1] Robbins was Born August 25, 1916
    elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Auburn, Alabama
    Sciences in 1962.[2] From 1966 to 1980, Robbins was Died August 4, 2003 (aged 86)
    dean of the School of Medicine at Case Western.[3] He Cleveland, Ohio
    was elected to the American Philosophical Society in
    Nationality American
    1972.[4] In 1980, he assumed the presidency of the
    National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. Alma mater University of Missouri
    He had been a member of the National Academy of Harvard University
    Sciences since 1972.[5] Five years later, in 1985, Awards E. Mead Johnson Award (1953)
    Robbins returned to Case Western Reserve as dean Nobel Prize in Physiology or
    emeritus and distinguished university professor Medicine (1954)
    emeritus.[6] He continued to be a fixture at the medical Scientific career
    school until his death in 2003. The medical school's
    Fields Pediatrics
    Frederick C. Robbins Society is named in his honor.
    Virology
    His wife, Alice N. Robbins, died in 2016. She was the
    daughter of Nobel laureate John Howard Northrop. Institutions Case Western Reserve University
    Robbins received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the
    American Philosophical Society in 1999.[7]

    See also
    List of Case Western people

    References
    1. Frederick C. Robbins (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/358) on Nobelprize.org
    2. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter R" (http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMe
    mbers/ChapterR.pdf) (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 April
    2011.
    3. "Professor Frederick C. Robbins" (https://web.archive.org/web/20121104093538/http://www.
    independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-frederick-c-robbins-548552.html). The
    Independent. London. August 8, 2003. Archived from the original (https://www.independent.c
    o.uk/news/obituaries/professor-frederick-c-robbins-548552.html) on November 4, 2012.
    Retrieved May 2, 2010.
    4. "APS Member History" (https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Frederick+C.
    +Robbins&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=
    advanced). search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
    5. "Frederick C. Robbins" (http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/511
    93.html). www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
    6. Health Sciences Tour. 4. Frederick C. Robbins Building (https://web.archive.org/web/200808
    30083417/http://www.case.edu/visit/tours/health/4.html). Case Western Reserve University
    7. "Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences Recipients" (http://
    www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/franklinscience). American Philosophical Society. Retrieved
    November 27, 2011.

    Further reading
    Zetterström, Rolf; Lagercrantz Hugo (2006). "J.F. Enders (1897–1985), T.H. Weller (1915–)
    and F.C. Robbins (1916–2003): a simplified method for the multiplication of poliomyelitis
    virus. Dreams of eradicating a terrifying disease". Acta Paediatr. 95 (9): 1026–8.
    doi:10.1080/08035250600900073 (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F08035250600900073).
    PMID 16938745 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16938745). S2CID 30811791 (https://api.
    semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:30811791).
    "The Abraham Flexner Award for distinguished service to medical education. Frederick C.
    Robbins, M.D" (https://doi.org/10.1097%2F00001888-198802000-00006). Journal of
    Medical Education. 63 (2): 121–2. 1988. doi:10.1097/00001888-198802000-00006 (https://d
    oi.org/10.1097%2F00001888-198802000-00006). PMID 3276892 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.
    nih.gov/3276892).
    Bendiner, E (1982). "Enders, Weller, and Robbins: the trio that 'fished in troubled waters' ".
    Hosp. Pract. (Off. Ed.). 17 (1): 163, 169, 174–5 passim.
    doi:10.1080/21548331.1982.11698030 (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F21548331.1982.116980
    30). PMID 6295913 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6295913).
    Marshall, E (1980). "Institute of Medicine names Robbins president". Science. 207 (4436):
    1184–5. Bibcode:1980Sci...207.1184M (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980Sci...207.11
    84M). doi:10.1126/science.6986655 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.6986655).
    PMID 6986655 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6986655).
    Sulek, K (1968). "[Nobel prizes for John F. Enders, Frederick Ch, Robbins and Thomas H.
    Weller in 1954 for discovery of the possibility of growing poliomyelitis virus on various tissue
    media]". Wiad. Lek. 21 (24): 2301–3. PMID 4303387 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4303
    387).

    Frederick C. Robbins (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/358) on Nobelprize.org including


    the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1954 The Cultivation of the Poliomyelitis Viruses in Tissue
    Culture
    Frederick Chapman Robbins (http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/m
    emoir-pdfs/robbins-frederick.pdf) — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of
    Sciences

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Chapman_Robbins&oldid=1244550014"

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