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Isabel Merrick Morgan, auch Morgan Mountain, (* 20. August 1911 ; † 18. August 1996 ) war eine US-amerikanische Virologin an der Johns-Hopkins-Universität , die – in einer Forschungsgruppe mit David Bodian und Howard Howe – einen Versuchsimpfstoff entwickelte, der Affen gegen Kinderlähmung schützte.
Isabel Merrick Morgan (also Morgan Mountain) (20 August 1911 – 18 August 1996) was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University, who prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against polio in a research team with David Bodian and Howard A. Howe.
Isabel Morgan was a microbiologist who studied the development of immunity to polio viruses. While working at Johns Hopkins University in 1948, she successfully inoculated monkeys against polio using an experimental vaccine with an inactivated virus. Morgan’s research provided the essential building blocks needed to formulate the polio ...
15. Juni 2021 · I first came across polio researcher Isabel Morgan in the late 1990s while writing the first edition of my book Experimenting with Humans and Animals. In it I noted that Morgan and Jonas Salk were the only individuals working on a killed-virus polio vaccine in the early 1950s, which wasn’t entirely true.
Dr. Isabel Morgan. The daughter of two accomplished biologists (her father won a Nobel Prize in 1933), Dr. Isabel Morgan was an early and important player in the race to find a polio...
The daughter of two accomplished biologists (her father won a Nobel Prize in 1933), Dr. Isabel Morgan was an early and important player in the race to find a polio vaccine. “Isabel Morgan is really one of the unsung heroes of the polio fight,” says author David Oshinsky. “She was a brilliant researcher.”
Curator Katherine Ott shares how the history of medicine has obscured scientist Isabel Morgan’s essential work on the polio vaccine.
