albert sabin was was the scientist's scientist. they all liked his live virus vaccine. jonas salk remained the people's scientist. he is the one we remember. in the year 2000, time magazine did a story on the 100 most influential scientists in the world in the 20th century. only jonas salk, among all polio researchers, was on that list. there is a wonderful cover which shows sigmund freud analyzing albert einstein with a couch and the picture of jonas salk on the table. those of the three men seen by time magazine as the three premiere scientists. of all major polio researchers, only one was not admitted to the national academy of sciences, and that was jonas salk. it was a scandal, but salk was blackballed from the academy by sabin and others. salk was once asked whether he felt bad that given what he had done, he had never been awarded the nobel prize. salk looked at the questioner and said, you know, it doesn't bother me, because everyone thinks i did win it. [laughter] the two men battled it out until the day they died in the 1990's. when they did pass, albert sabin