AKA Thomas Huckle Weller

Born: 15-Jun-1915
Birthplace: Ann Arbor, MI

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist, Doctor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cultured the polio virus

Military service: Army Medical Corps (to Major, 1942-45)

American virologist Thomas H. Weller was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine, in tandem with John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins, for cultivation of the polio vaccine in their research lab at Children's Hospital in Boston. Weller was also involved in projects that successfully cultivated the rubella (German measles) virus, and isolated the viruses responsible for chicken pox and herpes.

Father: Carl Vernon Weller (pathologist, b. 1887, d. 1956)
Wife: Kathleen Fahey Weller (m. 1945)
Son: Peter Fahey Weller (physician)
Son: Robert Andrew Weller (oceanographer)
Daughter: Janet Louise Weller (attorney)
Daughter: Nancy Kathleen Weller

    High School: Ann Arbor, MI (1932)
    University: BA, University of Michigan (1936)
    University: MS, University of Michigan (1937)
    Medical School: Harvard Medical School (1940)
    Teacher: Harvard Medical School (1949-54)
    Professor: Public Health, Harvard University (1954-81)

    Nobel Prize for Medicine 1954, with John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins

Author of books:
Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures: Fifty Years in Academic Tropical, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Virology (2004)

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