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Max Theiler

1899 - 1972

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Theiler is the 77th most popular biologist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 13th in 2019) and the most popular South African Biologist.

Max Theiler was a virologist who developed a vaccine for yellow fever.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Max Theiler ranks 77 out of 1,097. Before him are Günter Blobel, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Elizabeth Blackburn, Georg Forster, Alexander Oparin, and Michael Houghton. After him are Richard Owen, Ralph M. Steinman, Archibald Hill, René Lesson, Werner Arber, and Jules A. Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Max Theiler ranks 25. Before him are Fred Astaire, Paul Hermann Müller, Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, and Georg von Békésy. After him are Suzanne Lenglen, Adnan Menderes, Gustav Heinemann, Duke Ellington, Bertil Ohlin, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. Among people deceased in 1972, Max Theiler ranks 21. Before him are Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Asta Nielsen, J. Edgar Hoover, Paul Hausser, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Georg von Békésy. After him are Talal of Jordan, Andrei Tupolev, Dino Buzzati, Katherine Oppenheimer, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Maurice Chevalier.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Max Theiler ranks 16 out of 454. Before him are Miriam Makeba (1932), Shaka (1787), Christiaan Barnard (1922), Michael Levitt (1947), John Vorster (1915), and D. F. Malan (1874). After him are Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Thabo Mbeki (1942), C. R. Swart (1894), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), and Jacob Zuma (1942).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among biologists born in South Africa, Max Theiler ranks 1. After him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Sydney Brenner (1927), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Louisa Bolus (1877), and Austin Stevens (1950).

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