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Albert Bruce Sabin (/ ˈ s eɪ b ɪ n / SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease.
Ibn Sabʿīn is most famously remembered for his replies to the questions sent to him by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and published as الكلام على المسائل الصقلية al-Kalam 'ala al-Masa'il as-Siqiliya (Discourse on the Sicilian Questions) [5] which were first popularised in the West in 1853 by Sicilian Orientalist Michele Amari [6] who recognised Ibn Sab'in as the ...
Sicilian Questions (المسائل الصقلية, al-Masāʼil al-Ṣiqilliyya, in Arabic) is a 13th-century philosophical work by Ibn Sab'in.It contains the answer given by him to some philosophical questions raised by the Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and has been defined as "symbol on the intellectual relations between medieval Christian Europe and the Islamic world". [1]
Sabin Vaccine Institute (/ ˈ s eɪ b ɪ n / SAY-bin), located in Washington, D.C., is an American nonprofit organization promoting global vaccine development, availability, and use. Through its work, Sabin hopes to reduce human suffering by preventing the spread of vaccine-preventable , communicable disease in humans through herd immunity and ...
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (2002, 2006) notes that in the marsh areas of Southern Iraq, there was a continuous tradition of Mandaean religion, and that another pagan, or Sabian, centre in the tenth-century Islamic world centred on Harran. [59] These pagan Sabians are mentioned in the Nabataean corpus of Ibn Wahshiyya. [60]
According to legend, Venustian, governor of Etruria and Umbria, had Sabinus and his deacons arrested in Assisi.Diocletian's order required all Christians to sacrifice to the Roman gods or be put to death; their estates were then to be seized for the state.
Ellen Clara Sabin (November 29, 1850 – February 3, 1949; also known as Ella) was the president of the Milwaukee-Downer College in the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1921. She was a well-known advocate for the education of women.
His Knowledge and Liberation consists of a series of 30 questions and answers about his time's main issues, from the world's creation to the human free will and culpability after death. [33] Rawshana-i-nama (Book of Enlightenment), and the Sa'datnama (Book of Felicity) are also among his works. Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli: Sicily (Italy) 1104–1170