Awards & Winners

Max Theiler

Date of Birth 30-January-1899
Place of Birth Pretoria
(Gauteng, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa)
Nationality South Africa, Switzerland, United States of America
Profession Virologist
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. Born in Pretoria, he was educated in South Africa through completing 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 there the rest of his life. In 1930 he moved to the Rockefeller Institute in New York, becoming director of the Virus Laboratory.

Awards by Max Theiler

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1951


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it.)

1949


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For distinguished experimental work leading directly to the production of two effective vaccines against yellow fever. )