Jonas Salk Said that Patenting the Polio Vaccine Would be Like Patenting the Sun
As all of us around the world hold our breath, hoping for a headline announcing a scientific breakthrough in the battle against the novel coronavirus, this seems like a good time to remember a footnote in polio vaccine research: Jonas Salk did not patent the vaccine. Edward R. Murrow, a noted 20th-century broadcast journalist, interviewed Dr. … Read more