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- Birth nameJulius Stuart Donheiser
- Julius Youngner was born on October 24, 1920 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Tula Liakakis and Rina Balter. He died on April 27, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- SpousesTula Liakakis(? - 1963) (her death, 2 children)Rina Balter(? - 2017) (his death)
- An almost fatal bout of lobar pneumonia when he was a child led to his becoming a medical researcher and an important member of the team that developed the Salk vaccine for polio in 1955. Before that, an average of 50,000 children in the US were struck by polio every year. Within six years of the team's developing the vaccine and making it available to the public, vaccinations had reduced the numbers of polio cases reported each year to fewer than 1,000, and by 1979 the disease had been, for all practical purposes, eliminated.
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