John Franklin Enders
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John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1887 – September 8, 1985) was an American medical scientist and Nobel Prizewinner.
Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut and was educated at the Noah Webster School at Hartford and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire . He then attended Yale University for a short time before entering the United States Air Force in 1918. After returning from war he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key, and went on to become a businessman in real estate in 1922. He tried his hand at several careers before choosing to work in the biological field studying infectious diseases, gaining a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1930.
In 1954, Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue".
Enders died in 1985 in Waterford, Connecticut.