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No Binding. Condizione: Near Fine. Business Card SIGNED by Nobel Prize winning virologist Thomas H. Weller (signature only). Dr. Weller won Nobel for Medicine in 1954. card has small closed tear on right. SIGNED ITEM.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Grainy B&W photo on 8"x11" bonded paper sheet. SIGNED by Nobel Prize winning virologist Thomas H. Weller (signature only). Dr. Weller won Nobel for Medicine in 1954. Sheet has two folds and one staple hole. Also comes with original New York Times obituary for Dr. Weller. SIGNED ITEM.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Two-page biography sheet SIGNED by Nobel Prize winning virologist Thomas H. Weller (signature and Nobel notation only). Dr. Weller won Nobel for Medicine in 1954. Sheet has two folds. SIGNED ITEM.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 456 pp; illustrations. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE THOMAS H. WELLER (but he did not write his name in the book). Thomas H. Weller wrote Chapter 11, "History of Varicella Virus" (pp. 165-171). Offered with: Typed Letter, Signed, from William R. Hogenson of Medi-Ed Press to Thomas H. Weller (May 24, 1996): "We are particularly pleased that your journal entries will be included in the published book. Your hand-written glimpse into some of the most important work of this century will no doubt be of great interest to scientists as well as to students and lay people". This letter refers to Figures 1 and 2 in Thomas Weller's chapter, which reproduce two pages from Weller's lab notebook in March and April 1948. Also offered with: Typed Letter, Signed, from Sherlyn Hogenson of Medi-Ed Press to Thomas H. Weller (March 21, 1997); and Typed Letter, Signed, from John L. Sever to Thomas H. Weller (March 25, 1996). Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, ink stamp on front endpaper of fourth volume. Bindings tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, endpapers of volume three a bit foxed with top corner of front free endpaper clipped, ink stamp on front endpaper of volume four with small spot on fore edge. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Light wear to jacket at rear upper edge. No other notable flaws. AD. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. xviii, 1 leaf, 294 pp; illustrations. Original cloth. Very Good. First Edition. COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE THOMAS H. WELLER, with his ink signature "T H Weller (gift)" on the front flyleaf. John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." Quoting from the website of the American Association of Immunologists: Weller "was appointed the Richard Pearson Strong Professor and Chair of the Department of Tropical Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He chaired the department for 27 years, stepping down from the position in 1981 and retiring from teaching in 1985, when he was named professor emeritus. Throughout his career, Weller remained active in public health, serving on several committees established to address tropical diseases, including the Commission on Parasitic Diseases of the American Armed Forces Epidemiological Board (1953 59), the World Health Organization Committee on Medical Research (1967 70), the National Advisory Council of the Centers for Disease Control (1968 72), the Pan American Health Organization Advisory Committee on Medical Research (1970 81), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Advisory Council (1977 80)." Quoting from the website of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health: " 'Beyond his pioneering scientific breakthroughs in growing polio in culture and discovering varicella and rubella viruses, all of which made the new vaccines possible, Professor Weller became a champion for public health and the effort to focus the best of science on the diseases and health problems of the poorest people on the globe,' said Barry R. Bloom, Dean of Harvard School of Public Health. 'His impact has been incalculable, and his legacy will be something cherished by generations to come at HSPH and far beyond'. . . . 'Thomas Weller was one of the great scientists of the 20th century and a leader in neglected tropical diseases,' said Dyann Wirth, chair of the HSPH Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases. 'He inspired many during his lifetime, and his vision led an entire field for many decades. His legacy is one to be remembered'. ".

This American physician shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the polio vaccine with John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins. Bold signature (plus "MD") in blue ballpoint on a heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., 1967 July 2. Fine. With original envelope.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. x, 486 pp; 24 tables; 35 text figures. Original cloth. Very Good, in worn and torn dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Copy of Thomas H. Weller, with his printed name "T. H. Weller, 5/11/55" on the front flyleaf (see photo). John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." Frank Macfarlane Burnet shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960 with Peter Medawar "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.".

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. xii, 461 pp; text figures. Original cloth. Top & bottom of spine rubbed, with small tear at top of spine. Good. First Edition. COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE THOMAS H. WELLER, with his printed name and the date (3/19/54) on the front flyleaf. This book was published in the same year (1954) that John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." Weller's paper is "The Diagnosis of Viral Infections Employing Tissue Culture Methods" (pp. 334-347). John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." "The Symposium was sponsored by the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan and held at the Hospital October 21, 22 and 23, 1953." Among the many eminent contributors to the Symposium are: Nobel laureates in 1969 A. D. Hershey and S. E. Luria; and the polio vaccine creators Jonas E. Salk and Albert B. Sabin.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Photos, 9.25 x 6", blue cloth, 292pp with index, extremities lightly bumped else a nice, clean copy in a lightly rubbed dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, "Tom Weller".

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Lovell, Sgt. Tom (cover) (illustratore). First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Democracy and the General Staff; To the "Halls of Montezuma"; ".Well Worth the Effort"; Employ the Ontos; Battalion or Regiment? - one has to go; Terror in Cyprus (Part II); Support by Fire (part III) - Air Support - Quo Vadis?; The Pakistan Army; The Future Breed; Loneliest Man in the Military; 22D Commandant of the Marine Corps, David M. Shoup; Caterpillar grader ad features photo in St. Anthony Village, Minnesota; Sikorsky S-60 flying crane ad; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xii, 238 pp; illustrations. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. First Edition. SIGNED BY PAUL OFFIT TO NOBEL LAUREATE THOMAS H. WELLER: "To Tom,/ Thanks again for all of your insights/ into this tragedy./ I m not sure I could have written/ this book without you./ All best wishes/ Paul A. Offit/ September, 2005." This copy does not have any ownership marking in it, but I know "Tom" is Thomas H. Weller because the book, as well as other items owned by Weller that do have his name written in them, were acquired by me from the family after Weller's death in 2008. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954 was awarded jointly to John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." In the book on pp. 80 and 130, Offit quotes Weller's negative views, which were shared by others who are also quoted by Offit, that Jonas Salk was not a good scientist, never having been elected to the National Academy of Sciences nor awarded the Nobel Prize. However Offit expresses his own contrary view that "although not appreciated by many scientists, Salk made several important conceptual and technological advances that led to one of the greatest public heath achievements of our time" (p. 131). As a footnote, I would note that Salk, and Stephen Hawking, are probably the two persons most cited by the media as having received a Nobel Prize who did NOT receive the Prize. Quoting Wikipedia about the "Cutter Incident": "On April 12, 1955, following the announcement of the success of the polio vaccine trial, Cutter Laboratories became one of several companies that was recommended to be given a license by the United States government to produce Salk's polio vaccine. In anticipation of the demand for vaccine, the companies had already produced stocks of the vaccine and these were issued once the licenses were signed. In what became known as the Cutter incident, some lots of the Cutter vaccine--despite passing required safety tests--contained live polio virus in what was supposed to be an inactivated-virus vaccine. Cutter withdrew its vaccine from the market on April 27 after vaccine-associated cases were reported. The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis--and of these, five children died from polio. The exposures led to an epidemic of polio in the families and communities of the affected children, resulting in a further 113 people paralyzed and 5 deaths. The director of the microbiology institute lost his job, as did the equivalent of the assistant secretary for health. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby stepped down. William H. Sebrell Jr, the director of the NIH, resigned.". Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 95 pp; illustrations. Original wrappers. The text block has come unglued from the wrappers. It can easily be reglued back into the wrappers, but for now I am leaving it the way it is. This probably happened because of all the items Weller stuffed into the book. First Edition. SIGNED BY ELI CHERNIN TO THOMAS WELLER: "To Tom Weller-/ with my admiration, respect, and affection./ On his 70th birthday,/ Eli Chernin/ 16 June 1985". Eli Chernin (1924-1990) was a Professor of Tropical Medicine in the Harvard School of Public Health and a colleague of Thomas Weller at Harvard from 1954-1981, the "Weller Years" of the title. A number of photographs of Thomas Weller have been reproduced on pp. 17-24. The book is offered with several original, or photocopied, letters relating to the book, as well as photocopied reviews of the book (photos of all the letters are available upon request). In his autobiography "Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures, Fifty Years in Academic Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics, and Virology" (2004), Thomas Weller writes about Eli Chernin: "There is no greater responsbility for a departmental chair than to develop an outstanding faculty. It was my privilege to recruit an outstanding team. At the outset of my tenure in 1954, the Department consisted of me and three senior colleagues. . . . [one of the three was] Eli Chernin, a medical and experimental parasitologist, who was my first new recruit to the Department" (p. 185). Weller also wrote about Chernin: "Ludlow Manufacturing and Sales Compnay . . . wanted a parasitological survey done of its work force. Since there was no one available to undertake the job, Eli Chernin, who had just received his doctoral degree in parasitology at Johns Hopkins, was appointed a research associate and assigned to India for a year. After his return . . ., he began to work with me evenings at the Children's [Hospital] studying the growth of Toxoplasma gondii in tissue cultures. . . . I was impressed with Chernin's diligence and investigative interests" (p. 182). John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.". Signed by Author(s).

144 pp; illustrations (including eight pages of photographs after p. 64). Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket (the front flap of the dust jacket is not price-clipped!). This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition in English (originally published in Swedish, "Eu Testamente", in 1950. COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE THOMAS WELLER, with his signature "T H Weller/ gift" on the front flyleaf. John Enders, Thomas H. Weller, and Frederick Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." With the card of Stig Ramel Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation. Ramel wrote the "Foreword" to this book (pp. 7-11).

188 pp; 12 plates. Original two-toned cloth. Very Good, in dust jacket (the front flap of the dust jacket is not price-clipped!). First Edition. SIGNED BY HANS SELYE TO NOBEL LAUREATE THOMAS WELLER: "To Prof. Thomas H. Weller/ as a token of my admiration/ for his work/ Hans Selye/ Montreal 1968." John Enders, Thomas H. Weller, and Frederick Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.".

Frontispiece, 620 pp. Original cloth. Spine slightly sunned. Very Good. First Edition. COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE THOMAS H. WELLER, INSCRIBED TO HIM BY THE NOBEL FOUNDATION: "To/ Thomas H. Weller/ From/ The Nobel Foundation/ 1954." Weller received his Nobel Prize in 1954, so it is possible this copy was given to him at the time of the Nobel Ceremony in Stockholm. John Enders, Thomas H. Weller, and Frederick Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.".

Offprint, single leaf folded once; a fine copy. The rare offprint of the paper announcing the first cultivation of polio virus in cell cultures, the breakthrough that made modern vaccines possible. After studying pathogenic bacteria for a decade, Harvard Medical School microbiologist John Enders (1897-1985) turned his attention to viruses, refining his culture techniques with the mumps before applying them to polio. 'Before this discovery, scientists had been able to grow polio virus only in the nervous tissue of susceptible laboratory animals, commonly monkeys, in a painstaking process that yielded minute quantities of the virus. The work of Enders, Weller, and Robbins had the tremendous practical effect of enabling scientists to prepare large amounts of polio virus, making possible the mass production of the Salk killed-virus vaccine and later, the Sabin live-virus vaccine. The impact of their work, however, was not limited to the study of polio. Their culture technique gave researchers an invaluable tool for the study of other viruses; made viral research much less laborious, time-consuming, and costly; and sparked revolutionary progress in the field; (America Association of Immunologists biography). Enders was responsible for 'one of the most gracious acts in the history of the Nobel Prize', refusing to accept the award when it was offered to him alone and insisting that his co-authors, 'those who did the work', be recognised equally (Rosen, 'Isolation of Poliovirus - John Enders and the Nobel Prize', New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 351, no. 1, October 2004). Garrison-Morton Medical Bibliography 4671.1.

1 S. Visitenkartenformat. Thomas Huckle Weller hatte 1954 zusammen mit John F. Enders und Frederick C. Robbins den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin erhalten für ihre Entdeckung der Fähigkeit des Poliovirus, in Kulturen verschiedener Gewebstypen zu wachsen".

1 S. Visitenkartenformat. Thomas Huckle Weller hatte 1954 zusammen mit John F. Enders und Frederick C. Robbins den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin erhalten für ihre Entdeckung der Fähigkeit des Poliovirus, in Kulturen verschiedener Gewebstypen zu wachsen".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Buckram. Very Good. First Edition. Although this set of offprints belonged to Thomas H. Weller, his ownership marking is not present in any of the volumes. Each volume has a typed Table of Contents at the front. Each offprint has a number in the upper right corner of the front wrapper or first page (a few offprints in vol. IV are not numbered). Vol. I: 1935-1954. Papers 1-46. (Nos. 17, 28, 29 in photocopy. Nos. 36, 42 are extracts.) Vol. II: January 1955-June 1963. Papers 47-77. (Nos. 55, 68 in photocopy. Nos. 61, 73, 75, 76 are extracts.) Vol. III: July 1963-December 1974. Papers 78-133. (Nos. 92, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 105, 106, 108, 111, 113, 114, 116, 118, 121, 122, 126, 127, 129, 133 in photocopy. Nos. 80, 84, 85, 94, 95, 96 are extracts.) Vol. IV: January 1975-July 1985. Papers 88a, 132a, 136-182. (Nos. 88a, 132, 136, 138, 140, 143, 145, 146, 147, 151, 157, 158, 163, 165, 168, 169, 171, 173, 174, 175, 179 in photocopy. Nos. 88a, 160, 182 are extracts.) "John F. Enders, a bacteriologist, had become convinced as early as 1937 that viruses could be propagated by using tissue culture techniques, a procedure that would eliminate the difficult, time-consuming and costly process of cultivating viruses in live hosts. Thomas H. Weller, a specialist in tropical medicine, joined him in 1939, and after World War II Frederick C. Robbins, a specialist in the contagious diseases of children, became a member of the team. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, the team had succeeded in growing the polio virus in a variety of human tissues, including fetal intestine, embryonic skin, foreskin, kidney, and uterus. It was this development, which made possible the laboratory cultivation of large amounts of polio virus for experimental use, that led to great advances in research and enabled the preparation of a vaccine free of neural tissue. In 1954, Enders, Weller, and Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery" (Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine no. 98, pp. 353-56). Enders, Weller, and Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.".

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2 pp. Near Fine. First Edition. The offprint is a single large folded sheet, with the article reprinted on pp. 1-2; what would be pp. 3-4 are blank. "John F. Enders, a bacteriologist, had become convinced as early as 1937 that viruses could be propagated by using tissue culture techniques, a procedure that would eliminate the difficult, time-consuming and costly process of cultivating viruses in live hosts. Thomas H. Weller, a specialist in tropical medicine, joined him in 1939, and after World War II Frederick C. Robbins, a specialist in the contagious diseases of children, became a member of the team. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, the team had succeeded in growing the polio virus in a variety of human tissues, including fetal intestine, embryonic skin, foreskin, kidney, and uterus. It was this development, which made possible the laboratory cultivation of large amounts of polio virus for experimental use, that led to great advances in research and enabled the preparation of a vaccine free of neural tissue. In 1954, Enders, Weller, and Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery" (Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine no. 98, pp. 353-56, including fig. 176 showing the first page of the offprint). Enders, Weller, and Robbins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." Garrison-Morton 4671.1: "J. F. Enders, T. H. Weller, and F. C. Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. They received the Nobel Prize in 1954." The story of the research by Enders, Weller, and Robbins is recounted in John R. Paul, A History of Poliomyelitis, pp. 373-81.