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Isabel MorganIsabel Morgan (also Morgan Mountain) (1911–1996) was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University,
who - in a research team with David Bodian and Howard Howe - prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against poliomyelitis. She was the daughter of Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Vaughan Sampson. Additional recommended knowledge
Academic career and research work on polioIsabel Morgan graduated from Stanford University and wrote her doctoral thesis in bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania . She joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York in 1938. Her polio research work gained her high recognition among polio experts. In January 1958 she was inducted - as the only woman among 16 men - into the Polio Hall of Fame at Warm Springs, Georgia. Work in Westchester departmentand at the Sloan-Kettering InstituteIn 1949 Isabel Morgan left Johns Hopkins and married former Air Force Colonel Joseph Mountain, who was a data processor in New York. The couple moved to Westchester County and Morgan took a job with the county's Department of Laboratory Research. After her marriage Isabel Morgan never returned to polio research.She did, however, publish articles on polio.[3] When her stepson Jimmy Mountain was killed in an air crash in 1960 she gave up her job at the County Department and got a master's degree in biostatistics from Columbia University. She went on to work as a consultant at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute in Manhattan. Sources and ReferencesThe main source of the article is:
External LinksPublications by Isabel Morgan (retrieved from Google Scholar) in
Categories: Poliomyelitis | Virologists |
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