Robbins, Frederick Chapman (1916-2003), shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with John Enders and Thomas Weller. The men received the prize for developing tissue culture techniques for poliomyelitis viruses.
Robbins was born on Aug. 25, 1916, in Auburn, Alabama. He received his M.D. degree from Harvard University. In 1952, Robbins became a professor of pediatrics at Western Reserve (now Case Western Reserve) University and director of the pediatrics and contagious diseases department at Metropolitan General Hospital in Cleveland. He remained a professor at Case Wesleyan Reserve University until 1980. He also served as dean of the medical school at Case Western Reserve from 1966 until 1980.
In 1972, Robbins was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, an organization of top research scientists in the United States. Robbins died on Aug. 4, 2003.
