Wolf Szmuness

Wolf Szmuness (March 12, 1919 – June 6, 1982) was a Polish-born epidemiologist who emigrated to and worked in the United States. He conducted research at the New York Blood Center and, from 1973, he was director of the Center's epidemiology laboratory. He designed and conducted the trials for the first vaccine to prove effective against hepatitis B.[1][2]

  1. ^ Altman, Lawrence K. (8 June 1982). "DR. Wolf Szmuness is dead at 63; an epidemiologist and researcher". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Reflections on Wolf Szmuness", Proceedings in Clinical and Biologic Research, Volume 182, 1985, (pp. 3–10) by Aaron Kellner