The family’s 2-year struggle to immigrate to the United States from Poland
Sabin’s pursuit of lab space as an undergraduate for self-directed work as a “Microbe Hunter”
Near-death experiences Sabin had as a commissioned officer and working in a front-line research tent during WW II
Sabin’s lifelong friendship with Michael Chumakov, a Russian virologist who took a daring risk in the USSR during the Cold War Era that led to the largest vaccine trial in history using Sabin’s oral polio vaccine
Meeting with General Josep Tito of Yugoslavia that left the dictator in tears
Being asked to leave Brazil by health officials insulted by his critical comments and behavior
His three marriages and two daughters and the price they paid for their relationships to Sabin
