8 Things To Know About Pioneering Polio Doctor Dame Jean Macnamara

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“Dame Jean was a humble and shy person, who was driven by a sense of duty and service.”

Dame Jean Macnamara was a tireless polio researcher and Google is honouring her with a Google Doodle.

She helped to discover that there was more than one strain of the virus and her contributions led to a direct impact on the development of the polio vaccine in 1955.In 2018, when she was honored in Melbourne, her daughter,“Dame Jean was a humble and shy person, who was driven by a sense of duty and service. Educated on a scholarship, she was one of the first two women residents at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

 

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