Thomas Huckle Weller
Academic
1915 – 2008
Who was Thomas Huckle Weller?
Thomas Huckle Weller was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue.
Weller was born and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then went to the University of Michigan, where his father Carl Vernon Weller was a professor in the Department of Pathology. At Michigan, he studied medical zoology and received a B.S. and an M.S., with his masters thesis on fish parasites. In 1936, Weller entered Harvard Medical School, and in 1939 began working under John Franklin Enders, with whom he would later share the Nobel Prize. It was Enders who got Weller involved in researching viruses and tissue-culture techniques for determining infectious disease causes. Weller received his MD in 1940, and went to work at Children's Hospital in Boston.
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- Born
- Jun 15, 1915
Ann Arbor - Also known as
- 托马斯·哈克尔·韦勒
- Уэллер, Томас Хакл
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Michigan
- Harvard Medical School
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Ann Arbor
- Died
- Aug 23, 2008
Needham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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