In 1954, John F. Enders, a native of West Hartford, Connecticut and a graduate of Yale University (B.A. 1920), was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Thomas H. Weller and Frederick C. Robbins for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue, based on work done at the Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Medical Center in Boston, a laboratory established by John Enders in 1946.