Dr. Jonas E. Salk, discoverer of the new anti-pilio vaccine, today was named 1955 recipient of the $10,000 Mutual of Omaha Criss Award, an annual grant named after the founder of Mutual of Omaha, an insurance company.
In announcing the grant, Dr. Charles W. Mayo, of the Mayo Clinic here, head of the board of judges making the award, said that Dr. Salk was chosen from among 400 nominees. Dr. Mayo stated that Dr. Salk’s accomplishment “may well be the greatest contribution to medicine in our generation.”
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