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Thomas Huckle Weller (born
June 15,
1915) is an American
virologist. He,
John Franklin Enders and
Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
1954 for showing how to cultivate
poliomyelitis viruses in the test tube.
Weller was born and grew up in
Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and then went to the
University of Michigan, where his father Carl Vernon Weller was a professor in the Department of Pathology. At Michigan, he studied medical zoology received a B.S. and an M.S., with his masters thesis on fish parasites. In 1936, Weller entered
Harvard Medical School, and in 1939 began working under John Franklin Enders, with whom he'd later (along with Frederick Chapman Robbins) share the Nobel Prize. It was Enders who got Weller involved in researching viruses and tissue-culture techniques for determining infectious disease causes. Weller received his MD in 1940, and went to work at Children's Hospital in
Boston. In 1942, in the middle of World War II, he entered the Army Medical Corps and was stationed at the
Antilles Medical Laboratory in
Puerto Rico, earning the rank of Major and heading up the facility's Departments of Bacteriology, Virology and Parasitology. After the war, he returned to Children's Hospital in Boston, and it was there in 1947, he rejoined J.F. Enders in the newly created Research Division of Infectious Diseases. After several leading positions, he was appointed in 1954 the In July 1954, he was appointed Tropical Public Health Department Head the
Harvard School of Public Health. Weller also served, from 1953-1959, as Director of the Commission on Parasitic Diseases of the American
Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
In addition to his research on
polio, for which he won the
Nobel Prize, Weller has also contributed to treating
schistosomiasis, and
Coxsackie viruses. He was also the first to isolate the viruses responsible for
herpes and for
varicella.
In 1945, Weller married Kathleen Fahey. They had two sons and two daughters together.
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