Why should we remember Jonas Salk?
- He created a vaccine for one of the deadliest diseases of the first 1/2 of the 20th century.
- He has an institute in his memory.
- He is a very important person in the science and medicine world.
- He is the reason that polio hasn't had an outbreak in the US for 50 years.
- He is a very good role model, he always put others before himself, and he took school VERY seriously.