Books about jonas salk institute

This article was originally published on August 27, 2017.

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In 1959, Jonas Salk, the man who had discovered the vaccine for polio, approached Louis I. Kahn with a project.

Suzanne Bourgeois' history of the Salk Institute tells a great story about scientific entrepreneurialism and idealism.

"When Jonas Salk founded his eponymous research center for biological studies in , he envisioned a humanist, nearly monastic community of scientists.

This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

This biography does a fine job of laying out the complex life of the discoverer of the polio vaccine and the founder of the Salk Institute.

Describes the effects of the polio epidemic, recounts the life and work of Jonas Salk, the discoverer of the first polio vaccine, and discusses the later.

The city of San Diego, California had gifted him with a picturesque site in La Jolla along the Pacific coast, where Salk intended to found and build a biological research center. Salk, whose vaccine had already had a profound impact on the prevention of the disease, was adamant that the design for this new facility should explore the implications of the sciences for humanity.

He also had a broader, if no less profound, directive for his chosen architect: to “create a facility worthy of a visit by Picasso.” The result was the Salk Institute, a facility lauded for both its functionality and its st