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1906 – 1993Albert Sabin (1906-1993)Died 3 March 1993, aged 86Albert Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine, which used a weakened live virus and could be administered on a sugar cube, making mass immunization far easier than with the earlier injected vaccine. His vaccine became the primary tool in the global campaign to eradicate polio. He died in Washington, D.C.