the Order of Friendship Among Peoples (1986). Election to the Polio Hall of Fame, which was dedicated in Warm Springs, Georgia, on January 2, 1958 Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1959) Robert Koch Prize (1962) Feltrinelli Prize (1964) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1965) National Medal of Science (1970) Medal of Liberty (1986) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1986) The Cincinnati Convention Center was named after Sabin from 1985 to 2006. In 1999, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center named its new education and conference center for Sabin. The street that runs between the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center was renamed Albert Sabin Way on April 28, 2000. On March 6, 2006, the U.S. Postal Service issued an 87-cent postage stamp bearing 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. In 2012, Albert Sabin was named a "Great Ohioan" by the Capitol Square Foundation. See also List of Poles References Notes Bibliography Further reading The Myth of Jonas Salk: It was Albert Sabin’s vaccine, not Salk’s, that truly defeated polio. By Angela Matysiak July 1, 2005 MIT Technology Review Archives holding his papers External links Dr. Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Obituary, NY Times, March 4, 1993 Sabin Vaccine Institute Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives, University of Cincinnati The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project Blog, University of Cincinnati The Albert B. Sabin Archives Digital Collection, University of Cincinnati The Finding Aid for the Albert B. Sabin Papers, University of Cincinnati 1906 births 1993 deaths American medical researchers American people of Polish-Jewish descent American pathologists American virologists Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati Jewish American scientists United States Army personnel of World War II National Medal of Science laureates People from Białystok People from Belostoksky Uyezd Polish emigrants to the United States Jews from the Russian Empire Polio Presidents of Weizmann Institute of Science New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni University of Cincinnati faculty United States Army Medical Corps officers Vaccinologists Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Presidents of universities in Israel 20th-century American Jews Bellevue Hospital physicians Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences