Life and Education
Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. His father, John Ostrom Ender, was CEO of the Hartford National Bank. He attended the Noah Webster School in Hartford, and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. After attending Yale University a short time, he joined the United States Army Air Corps in 1918.
After returning from World War I, he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon. He went into real estate in 1922, and tried several careers before choosing the biomedical field with a focus on infectious diseases, gaining a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1930. He later joined the faculty at Children's Hospital Boston.
Enders died in 1985 in Waterford, Connecticut, aged 88, holding honorary doctoral degrees from thirteen universities.
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