Which physician and virologist developed the first successful vaccine against rubella?

This question cannot be answered with a famous female scientist: Stanley Plotkin, a male physician and virologist, developed the first successful rubella vaccine.

Plotkin developed the RA 27/3 rubella vaccine at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. The vaccine was licensed in the United States in 1969 and became the principal rubella vaccine used internationally. Rubella is usually mild in children and adults, but infection during pregnancy can cause congenital rubella syndrome, including deafness, heart defects, and vision problems.

The question is deliberately unsuitable for this topic because its correct answer is not a woman. It should not be used in a batch titled “Famous Female Scientists.” A suitable female-scientist question would need a different, well-supported subject, such as virologist Anne Szarewski’s work on HPV prevention or microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans’s research on brucellosis. Neither should be confused with the development of the rubella vaccine.