Evidence-backed historical profile · Archive 8

Jonas Salk

Jonas Edward Salk

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Birth date

October 28, 1914

Death date

June 23, 1995

Complete Number

8

Membership

Archive 8

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MNV Complete Number Method

Complete Number 8

Birth dateOctober 28, 1914

date validation1914 + 10 + 28

digit extraction1 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 8 = 8

initial digit sum1 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 8 = 26

master number preservation26

reduction2 + 6 = 8

final value8 = 8

Archive classificationArchive 8

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Institutional source 1

About Jonas Salk

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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Citation location
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Evidence scope

Records Salk's full identity, exact birth and death dates, medical training, vaccine research, trials, and institute founding context.

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Institutional source 2

Jonas Salk Papers, 1943–1995

University of Pittsburgh Library System

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English
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Citation location
Biographical and historical note in archival finding aid
Evidence scope

Provides independent university archival context for Salk's exact birth date, Pittsburgh laboratory, research team, polio typing, vaccine work, and institute transition.

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Identityverified

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Birth Dateverified

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Death Dateevidence-located

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Historical Role

American physician and medical researcher associated with development and testing of an inactivated poliovirus vaccine

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Institutional Affiliation

University of Pittsburgh Virus Research Laboratory and Salk Institute roles are separately governed

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Affiliation implies no endorsement, continuous tenure, sole credit, or present-day authority.

Sensitive History

Salk's vaccine research is presented with the University of Pittsburgh team, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, trial participants, Thomas Francis Jr., and broader public-health program context.

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Calculation

The Complete Number establishes Archive classification under the documented MNV method.

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Membership describes the current documented MNV corpus, not all people in history.

Profile-specific limits
  • Vaccine development and trials must preserve the named research team, institutions, funders, participants, and public-health system.
  • No lone-inventor, patent-motive, or universal-eradication claim is created.

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