[Burkeman1]

That should be "Saulk" and not "Faulk". duh.

[Pelham]

It's Jonas Salk, and although he loved taking credit for finding the cure for polio he was just building on the work of others who are mostly forgotten. Drs Robbins, Enders, and Weller won the 1954 Nobel Prize for their 1949 discovery of how to grow the human polio virus in a test tube. Salk figured out a way to mass produce it, and a way to take credit for everything polio related. Salk was a public relations genius who should be the envy of Hollywood.