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John Franklin Enders (February 10 1897 – September 8 1985) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 medical scientist and Nobel laureate.

Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut
West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. The town was incorporated in 1854. Prior to that date, the town was a parish of Hartford....
 and was educated at the Noah Webster
Noah Webster

File:Noah Webster engraving.jpgNoah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, and editor. He has been called the ?Father of American Scholarship and Education.? His ?Blue-Backed Speller? books were used to teach spelling and reading to five generations of American children....
 School at Hartford and St. Paul's School
St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)

St. Paul's School is a private, college-University-preparatory school, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America....
 in Concord, New Hampshire
Concord, New Hampshire

The city of Concord is the Capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County, New Hampshire....
. He then attended Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 for a short time before entering the United States Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
 in 1918.

After returning from war he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key
Scroll and Key

The Scroll and Key Society is a senior or Collegiate secret societies in North America, founded in 1841 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut....
 as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon
Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon is a fraternity founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class who, upon hearing that some but not all of them had been invited to join the two existing societies , instead elected to form their own fraternity....
, and went on to become a businessman in real estate in 1922.






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John Franklin Enders (February 10 1897 – September 8 1985) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 medical scientist and Nobel laureate.

Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut
West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. The town was incorporated in 1854. Prior to that date, the town was a parish of Hartford....
 and was educated at the Noah Webster
Noah Webster

File:Noah Webster engraving.jpgNoah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, and editor. He has been called the ?Father of American Scholarship and Education.? His ?Blue-Backed Speller? books were used to teach spelling and reading to five generations of American children....
 School at Hartford and St. Paul's School
St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)

St. Paul's School is a private, college-University-preparatory school, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America....
 in Concord, New Hampshire
Concord, New Hampshire

The city of Concord is the Capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County, New Hampshire....
. He then attended Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 for a short time before entering the United States Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
 in 1918.

After returning from war he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key
Scroll and Key

The Scroll and Key Society is a senior or Collegiate secret societies in North America, founded in 1841 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut....
 as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon
Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon is a fraternity founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class who, upon hearing that some but not all of them had been invited to join the two existing societies , instead elected to form their own fraternity....
, and went on to become a businessman in real estate in 1922. He tried his hand at several careers before choosing to work in the biological field studying infectious diseases, gaining a Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 at Harvard in 1930.

In 1954, while working at Children's Hospital Boston
Children's Hospital Boston

Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts.Located at 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute....
, Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller
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 tissue from a monkey....
, and Frederick Chapman Robbins
Frederick Chapman Robbins

Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist.He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller....
 were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute virus infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route....
 viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue".

Enders died in 1985 in Waterford, Connecticut
Waterford, Connecticut

Waterford is a New England town in New London County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. It is named after Waterford, Ireland. The population was 19,152 at the 2000 United States Census....
, aged 88.

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