Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916-2003)

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.”

American pediatrician and virologist. Robbins was born on August 25, 1916 at Auburn, Alabama. He was educated at the University of Missouri, where he took the A.B. degree in 1936 and the B.S. in 1938. In 1940 he graduated from Harvard Medical School and became resident physician at The Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston. He was Associate physician at the Harvard Medical School, Professor at Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Director of the Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases. In 1961 he was elected President of the Society for Pediatric Research, and in 1962 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Robbins died on August 4, 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.