Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the NYU Langone Medical Center. Office of Alumni Relations

Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the NYU Langone Medical Center Office of Alumni Relations.

The television studio crew tends to a baby klieg light that exploded above Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. four minutes before the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the NYU Langone Medical Center. Office of Alumni Relations

Medical Alumni volume of the General Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1842 to 1907

Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the NYU Langone Medical Center. Office of Alumni Relations

Publication for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations at NYU Langone Medical Center.