Max Theiler
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Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist and doctor who lived from 1899 to 1972. He is remembered for his contributions to virology and medicine during a significant period in the development of these fields.
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Max Theiler (30 January 1899 – 11 August 1972) was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first African-born Nobel laureate.
Born in Pretoria, Theiler was educated in South Africa through completion of his degree in medical school. He went to London for postgraduate work at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, earning a 1922 diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene. That year, he moved to the United States to do research at the Harvard University School of Tropical Medicine. He lived and worked in that nation the rest of his life. In 1930, he moved to the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, becoming director of the Virus Laboratory.
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1899 births1972 deathsAlumni of King's College LondonAlumni of Pretoria Boys High SchoolAlumni of St Thomas's Hospital Medical SchoolAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican virologistsHarvard University facultyNobel laureates in Physiology or MedicineRecipients of the Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research AwardRhodes University alumniScientists from Pretoria