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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (84) |
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| complete name: |
Max Theiler |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1951 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951 was awarded to Max Theiler "for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Max |
| family name: |
Theiler |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
virologist |
| field of work: |
virus |
| work location: |
Harvard University, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States of America |
| description: |
Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist and doctor. 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 post-graduate work at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, King's College London 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 worked and lived in that nation the rest of his life. In 1930 he moved to the Rockefeller Institute in New York, becoming director of the Virus Laboratory. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1951/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1899 |
| date death: |
1972 |
| usual name: |
Max Theiler |
