- Virologist who developed a way to manufacture yearly batches of an influenza vaccine. Acting on Kilbourne's belief that an influenza epidemic was imminent in the wake of a death of a Fort Dix soldier from influenza in 1976, then-President Gerald Ford ordered that 200 million Americans be vaccinated.
- He was a member of the New York Medical College from 1992 until his retirement in 2002.
- He was honored in 1983 by the New York Academy of Medicine with it's highest scientific award.
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