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September 3, 1888

Thomas Milton Rivers

Viruses and bacteria are two very different things. We know that now thanks to a pioneering scientist born in Jonesboro. Known as the father of modern virology, Thomas Milton Rivers also had a hand in the development of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine. Rivers graduated from Emory College and went on to Johns Hopkins Medical School. […]

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Thomas Milton Rivers oversaw the activity of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, which handled onsite investigation in Japan following the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.