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Max Theiler (Pretoria, 30 gennaio 1899 – New Haven, 11 agosto 1972) è stato un medico sudafricano, vincitore del Premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1951
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951 was awarded to Max Theiler "for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it"
Max Theiler, South African-born American microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his development of a vaccine against yellow fever. Theiler developed the first attenuated strain of yellow fever virus in the late 1930s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Premio Nobel (1951) per la medicina o fisiologia in riconoscimento dei suoi studî sulla febbre gialla; riuscì (1930) a trovare il metodo per produrre lesioni encefalitiche nel topo col virus della febbre gialla e a ottenere un ceppo attenuato, adatto alle prove diagnostiche.
The availability of mice made this a simple solution to greatly reduce costs, improve efficiency and, ultimately, produce a vaccine. He developed a convenient test for detecting protective yellow fever antibodies, which would enable the development of human yellow fever vaccines.
11 nov 2007 · In 1951, Max Theiler of the Rockefeller Foundation received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever—a discovery first reported in the JEM 70 years ago.
