Porter Anderson

Porter Anderson (1937- ) is a microbiologist known for developing vaccines against Haemophilus influenzae Type B and pneumonia while a faculty member of Harvard University and the University of Rochester. He was raised in Montgomery, Montgomery County, attended Sidney Lanier High School, and taught at Stillman College, in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, during the late 1960s.

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