Frederick Robbins

Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist, born in Auburn, Alabama, in 1916 and died in 2003, who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller for their breakthrough work isolating and growing poliovirus in tissue culture, an achievement that enabled the later development of polio vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Robbins is the only Nobel laureate born in Alabama. He served as professor of pediatrics and later dean of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and was president of the Institute of Medicine in 1980.