John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines." The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954, announced October 21, 1954. John F. Enders, Thomas H. Weller, and Frederick C. Robbins, “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”. John F. Enders: born 1897, West Hartford, CT, USA. Thomas H. Weller: born 1915, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Frederick C. Robbins: born 1916, Auburn, AL, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).