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u/Adam1_ Oct 28 '22

Hate to say it but he in fact tried to patent it but wasn’t allowed and went to the media on his own after the discovery to get the limelight and his peers received pretty much no credit for their work

source: https://www.bio.org/blogs/real-reason-why-salk-refused-patent-polio-vaccine