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Max Theiler

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Max Theiler

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South African-American virologist and doctor (1899-1972)

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Max Theiler was a person born on January 30, 1899, and died on August 11, 1972. Associated with the country code CH, he is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Medicine collections. He received one Nobel Prize.

His notable work includes "The development of vaccines against yellow fever." Records indicate he has five works, with one specific title listed. His contributions are referenced by 313 other encyclopedia articles.

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Works
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Top works

  • The development of vaccines against yellow fever

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CH
Active from
1987-12-23

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,556x

  2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

    · 1995 · cited 21,489x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,822x

  4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,393x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,605x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1951

    “for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Theiler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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