Object Details
- Description
- Maurice Ralph Hilleman (1919-2005) was an important and much honored American microbiologist who developed more than 40 important vaccines. He worked for E. R. Squibb & Sons, the U.S. Army Medical Center (now Walter Reed Army Institute of Research), and then Merck & Co. In 1963, when his daughter Jeryl Lynn came down with the mumps, Dr. Hilleman cultivated material from her and used it as the basis of a mumps vaccine.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1971
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hilleman Family: Lorraine W. Hilleman, Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, and Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman
- Measurements
- overall: 21 1/2 in x 27 1/4 in; 54.61 cm x 69.215 cm
- Object Name
- print, advertising, vaccine
