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Film crew visits Montana State University for documentary on grad Maurice Hilleman who saved lives of millions

A film crew from Pennsylvania is visiting Montana State University this week to work on a feature-length documentary of the late Maurice Hilleman, who graduated from what was then Montana State College in 1941. Hilleman went on to become one of the world’s most successful developers of vaccines, and he is credited with saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist.

According to the film’s director, Donald Mitchell, the documentary on Hilleman has grown out of interviews Hilleman gave to fellow vaccinologist Paul Offit in the years leading up to his death from cancer in 2005. Offit’s biography of Hilleman, "Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases," was published in 2007.

By Sepp Jannotta, MSU News Service

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/news/12684/film-crew-visits-msu-for-documentary-on-grad-who-saved-lives-of-millions

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