{"id":7109,"date":"2015-11-24T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2015-11-24T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:24:30","slug":"the-legacy-of-jonas-salk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/library-channel\/the-legacy-of-jonas-salk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Jonas Salk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/search-details.aspx?showID=29919\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/29919.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>To those of a certain age, Jonas Salk is an icon.  He&#8217;s the doctor who in the 1950&#8217;s, developed the first successful vaccine for polio; a disease that at its peak afflicted more than a half a million people a year.  But as his sons Peter and Jonathan Salk describe here, the late Dr. Salk&#8217;s legacy extends far beyond his work in medicine. <\/p>\n<p>Salk was among the first to blend art and science in the architecturally renowned Salk Institute for Biological Studies, which helped spawn a research mecca on the Torrey Pines Mesa in La Jolla. And, as UC San Diego&#8217;s Mary Walshok recounts to journalist Gary Robbins, Salk&#8217;s 1970 marriage to the French painter and best-selling author Francoise Gilot added a spark of glamour to San Diego&#8217;s bourgeoning scientific community. <\/p>\n<p>Hearing these stories today makes it clear just how much one person can change the course of history &#8211; both in the region and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/search-details.aspx?showID=29919\">Creativity, Culture and Community: The Legacy of Jonas Salk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Browse more programs on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/library-channel\">The Library Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those of a certain age, Jonas Salk is an icon. He&#8217;s the doctor who in the 1950&#8217;s, developed the first successful vaccine for polio; a disease that at its peak afflicted more than a half a million people a year. But as his sons Peter and Jonathan Salk describe here, the late Dr. Salk&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}