Thomas Milton Rivers (1888-1962), US virologist. Rivers chaired the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, helping to organise the 1954 trials o
Thomas Milton Rivers (1888-1962), US virologist. Rivers chaired the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, helping to organise the 1954 trials of the polio (Salk) vaccine introduced in 1957. Rivers studied at Johns Hopkins Medical School, graduating in 1915. By 1922, he was at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, leading its hospital research by 1937. He became Institute director in 1953, retiring in 1956. As well as his work on polio, he also worked on pneumonia and measles. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1932), he carried out research in the Pacific during World War II, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral.
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