Step 1 : Introduction to the question "4. Born in New York City in 1914, this gentleman had planned to study law, but a science class so intrigued him that he devoted his life to it. Who went on to give the world a polio vaccine in 1955?"
...1. Sergei Kominski 2. Jonas Salk 3. Louis Mercator 4. Eric von Leeuwenhoek Salk enrolled in City College at the age of fifteen and turned his attention to science and medicine. He later studied at N.Y.U.(New York University) medical school and spent eight years of pursuing a vaccine for polio. When he thought he had found it, he tested it on himself and his children. As it was successful, he announced its release in 1955. He subsequently received many awards, among them the Congressional Medal Of Honor for distinguished achievement. He also worked as a consultant for WHO (World Health Organisation), and later set up the Salk Institute for cancer research in La Jolla, CA.
