Salk

[ sawk, sawlk ]

noun
  1. Jonas E(dward), 1914–95, U.S. bacteriologist: developed Salk vaccine.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

British Dictionary definitions for Salk

Salk

/ (sɔːlk) /


noun
  1. Jonas Edward. 1914–95, US virologist: developed an injected vaccine against poliomyelitis (1954)

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for Salk

Salk

[ sôlk ]


  1. American microbiologist who in 1954 developed the first effective vaccine against polio, using an inactivated form of the virus. Salk's vaccine, which was administered by injection, was widely used until 1959 when Albert Sabin introduced an orally administered vaccine derived from a live form of the virus.

The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.