National Medal Winner
Hilleman, Dr. Maurice, National Medal of Science, 1988Six vials of vaccines and report describing their development
"Discoveries of the cause for diseases and their prevention by vaccines. These discoveries and developments have been a hallmark for twentieth-century medicine and provide a remarkable heritage for the people of the future...Present vaccines now prevent more than 4 million deaths per year worldwide. Prevention of one million deaths per year occurs from application of measles vaccine alone."