The Story
Though she worked in relative obscurity and ended up in an unmarked grave in the Park Lawn cemetery in Toronto, Farrell played a key role in the eradication of polio. She did not discover the vaccine, but she figured out a way to stimulate the growth of microorganisms in the lab, and this technique was eventually used to mass produce the Salk polio vaccine. More at
Operation Dialogue.
The Person
- Birthdate
- April 13, 1904
- Birthplace
- Monkland, Ontario
- Date of Death
- September 24, 1986
- Residence
- Toronto
- Title
- Biochemist
- Office
- Connaught Labs
- Status
- Deceased
- Degrees
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- PhD University of Toronto
- Last Updated
- September 18, 2007
- Popularity
- 33191
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