Albert Sabin - Honors

Honors

  • Election to the Polio Hall of Fame, which was dedicated in Warm Springs, Georgia, on January 2, 1958
  • National Medal of Science (1970)
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom (1986)
  • In 1999, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center named its new education and conference center for Sabin.
  • On March 6, 2006, the US Postal Service issued an 87ยข postage stamp carrying his image, in its Distinguished Americans series.
  • In early 2010, Sabin was proposed by the Ohio Historical Society as a finalist in a statewide vote for inclusion in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol.

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