Dr. Jonas Salk, originator of the anti-polio vaccine, will receive an honorary fellowship from the Weizmann Institute of Science, it was announced today by Abraham Feinberg, president of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. Mr. Feinberg also disclosed that the Israel science center located at Rehovot, had just received a five year, $125,000 grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health “to continue and expand its research on polyamino acids as protein models.”
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