Happy Birthday Dr. Salk
 

File this one under true 'American Exceptionalism'.

'The Gift of Health'
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Happy_100th_Dr_Salk

"Salk famously told Edward R. Murrow: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" Happy Birthday Dr. Salk.

File this under true 'American/Jewish Exceptionalism'.

The Jewish contribution to Modern Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Economics and Medicine is extraordinary.

The children of Jewish immigrants, contemporaries of Jonas Salk, made great use of the inexpensive City University of New York.

To your memory Sir, from one who witnessed the awful effects of polio on a
close friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

Thanks for the sugar cubes.

Thanks Salk. My dad talks about Polio occasionally.

Pete

Same here Don.

Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post was another who had polio.