#tbt This is the dedication, with Eleanor Roosevelt, for the Polio Hall of Fame, honoring 17 scientists critical to polio research & the vaccine. The only woman scientist is in the center. She's Isabel Morgan (1911-1996) ... 1/5 https://asm.org/Articles/2019/August/Forging-the-Trail-for-a-Polio-Vaccine-Isabel-Morga

...Morgan cracked 2 major barriers that made the Salk vaccine possible: identified 3 serotypes for polio that needed to be protected against. Then in preclinical studies, she showed inactivated vaccine could work if you added adjuvant & a booster shot ...2/5

...These are her parents, both geneticists. She's Lilian Vaughan Morgan, a pioneer in using Drosophila as a model, revealing some of its chromosomes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Vaughan_Morgan

He's Thomas Hunt Morgan, 1933 Nobel prize winner for chromosome discoveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hunt_Morgan ...3/5

..Morgan graduated from Stanford; doctorate, Uni of Pennsylvania. She joined the Rockefeller in 1938, faced discrimination, moved to Johns Hopkins in 1944. She left in 1949, uneasy about risks of 1st-in-human trials & to marry..4/5 https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/conquering-polio-lecture-david-oshinsky, https://asm.org/Articles/2019/August/Forging-the-Trail-for-a-Polio-Vaccine-Isabel-Morga

...She worked in a lab locally. ~1960 she got masters in statistics from Columbia, & worked as a consultant to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute.

Here she is being interviewed in 1948 at 1st international polio conference. 5/5 https://twitter.com/jhmedarchives/status/1031602516948082689, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Morgan