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Dr. Jonas Salk displays his polio vaccine, which he developed in a University of Pittsburgh laboratory. Bettmann/Bettmann Collection via Getty Images

The world risks forgetting one of humanity’s greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication − 70 years after Jonas Salk developed the vaccine in a Pittsburgh lab

Carl Kurlander, University of Pittsburgh

Polio may finally be defeated in the next 5 years. Will the world recognize what an extraordinary achievement that is?
Lise Meitner, in the front row, sits alongside many male colleagues at the Seventh Solvay Physics Conference in 1933. Corbin Historical via Getty Images

Female physicists aren’t represented in the media – and this lack of representation hurts the physics field

Carl Kurlander, University of Pittsburgh and Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh

The trailer for ‘Oppenheimer’ fails to include female physicists, which is indicative of a broader media trend that, if reversed, could lead to greater gender diversity in science.
An emergency polio ward in Boston in 1955 equipped with iron lungs. These pressurized respirators acted as breathing muscles for polio victims, often children, who were paralyzed. www.apimages.com

The deadly polio epidemic and why it matters for coronavirus

Carl Kurlander, University of Pittsburgh

Polio was nearly eradicated with the Salk vaccine in 1955. At the time, little was known about this mysterious disease that paralyzed and sometimes killed young children.

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