 With his understanding of the disease, he made a series of crucial discoveries that paved the way for the final development of a vaccine by Jonas Salk and later by Albert Sabin.He received the E. Mead Johnson Award in Pediatrics and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award for his work, along with numerous other distinctions.In 1910, David Bodian was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Jewish parents who had emigrated from the Ukraine.