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Jonas Salk
(28 Oct 1914 - 23 Jun 1995)
American physician and microbiologist.
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Science Quotes by Jonas Salk (1)
Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" [On being asked who owned the patent on his polio vaccine by journalist, Edward R. Murrow in 1954.]
— Jonas Salk
Quoted in The Economist (14 Aug 1999), 11. In Howard Gardner, et al., Good Work (2002), 111.