John Enders

John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist sometimes called the Father of Modern Vaccines. In 1949, together with Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins, he reported the successful cultivation of poliovirus in laboratory tissue culture, work that also included culturing the measles virus and contributed to the eventual development of a measles vaccine. The three scientists shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.