…new uses of the images. The Salk Institute is one example, and the Karsh estate has worked with Salk’s estate on various projects, including a mural at the Jonas Salk… […]

Jonas Salk, 1956 In this quarter’s issue of The New Atlantis, contributing editor Algis Valiunas writes about Jonas Salk, using our portrait to illustrate. Salk discovered and developed one of… […]

Jonas Salk, 1956 American virologist and medical researcher Jonas Salk was born on this day, October 28, in 1914 (d. 1995). In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship in the School… […]

Jonas Salk, 1956 Before Jonas Salk’s vaccine was introduced in 1955, polio was considered one of the most serious public health problems in the world, and epidemics were increasingly devastating… […]

Jonas Salk, 1991 On this day, April 26, in 1954, Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine began field trials. “The polio vaccine field trials of 1954, sponsored by the National Foundation for… […]

Jonas Salk, 1956 Jonas Salk was born on this day, October 28, in 1914. Salk discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, and his late years were… […]

Jonas Salk, 1956 On March 26, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk went on CBS radio to announce his vaccine for poliomyelitis. Salk campaigned for mandatory vaccination, claiming that public health should… […]

Jonas Salk, 1991 Today marks the 67th anniversary of the first mass inoculation against polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine. It took place on February 23, 1954, at Arsenal Elementary… […]

Dr. Jonas Salk, 1956 Just added to the website, an at-rest Dr. Jonas Salk in a portrait from his Sitting with Karsh in 1956. Dr. Salk was photographed at the… […]

…the portraits included were those of artist Georgia O’Keeffe, physician and virologist Jonas Salk, singer Marian Anderson, actress Grace Kelly, businesswoman Elizabeth Arden, architect I. M. Pei and first lady… […]

…through January 20, 2019. The 48 Karsh portraits on view include First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Humphrey Bogart, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jonas Salk, Marian Anderson, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Arden, and I. M…. […]

…of polio vaccines. Roosevelt’s leadership in the March of Dimes is one reason he is commemorated on the American dime. (Wikipedia) Read about Dr. Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine… […]

…including photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe, Jonas Salk, Marian Anderson, Elizabeth Arden, I.M. Pei, Helen Keller, Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, and first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy. The curator of… […]

…be included will be those of artist Georgia O’Keeffe, physician and virologist Jonas Salk, singer Marian Anderson, actress Grace Kelly, businesswoman Elizabeth Arden, architect I.M. Pei, and first lady Eleanor… […]