Karen Torgaly

Where would you put you?

He said, why don't you just put me with where I would be if I was in Poland and see how I do.

If I do all right, then I'll stay with my class.

And if I don't, then I'll repeat some.

So they did that, and it was very bright.

So he was able to graduate with his class with top honors.

He had an uncle by marriage who was a dentist, a very successful one in New York City, and he did not have any sons.

So he made the offer to Albert and his family that if he would go to dental school and go into practice with him later in life, that he would pay for all of his school expenses.

He got two or three years of dental school background and training.

Then in 1926, he read a book called The Microbe Hunters by Paul de Cruyff.

And after he read that book, he knew he could not go into dentistry because he had to be a medical researcher.

He knew.

It gave him what he called a terrific compulsion.

So he went to someone who had trained him in his undergraduate school in microbiology, who he knew was involved with the New York City Health Department and had some laboratory space that he had access to.

So he went to this man whose name was William Park and just knocked on the door and he said,

I had this terrific compulsion to be a medical researcher, and I need to start now, and I need to have some lab space.

So he gave it to him.

And Sabin would spend every minute in the lab that he could spare, and he watched the people in the lab, how they worked, what they did, what the materials were, and studied in between.

He spent most of his life in that lab from then on.

And he had told his uncle that he couldn't go into dentistry, and so he was on his own.