Max Theiler

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Max Theiler
Theiler in 1951
Born	(1899-01-30)30 January 1899 Pretoria, South African Republic (present-day South Africa)
Died	11 August 1972(1972-08-11) (aged 73) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	South Africa, American
Alma mater	University of Cape Town
Known for	Developing a vaccine against yellow fever
Awards	Chalmers Medal (1939) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1949) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1951)
Scientific career
Fields	Virology

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.^[1]

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.^[2]