Dr. Salk's Life After the Vaccine
"The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out." ~ Dr. Jonas E. Salk
Personal Cost of Not Patenting his Vaccine
In a 2012 Forbes article, Amar Prabhu utilized the 20-year patent life cycle and extrapolated Consumer Price Index data from the 1955-1975 to calculate that Dr. Salk potentially forfeited $2 to $2.5 billion by not patenting his inactivated polio vaccine.