Introductory remarks the presentation of the E. Mead Johnson Award affords the recipient
the honor of publicly acknowledging his debts to his teachers. I pay such grateful tribute to
Dr. Grover Powers and Dr. Edward B. Shaw, my preceptors in academic pediatrics and to Dr.
Joseph Smadel who introduced me to the pox viruses and urged me to take another look at
the well-trodden field of smallpox. Helpful in his own way was the senior virologist who
urged me instead to get involved in another, more fruitful field because" smallpox leaves no …