Max Theiler

Bacteriologist, born in Pretoria, South Africa. He settled in the USA in 1922, and worked at Harvard Medical School (1922–30) and the Rockefeller Institute, New York City (1930–64), and became professor at Yale Medical School (1964–7). He was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on yellow fever, for which he discovered the vaccine 17-D in 1939.

Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 – August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever. He left South Africa to study at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School and the School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, in London. In 1922 he was awarded a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Theiler wanted to pursue a career in research, so in 1922 he took a position at the Harvard University School of Tropical Medicine.

Theiler was awarded the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's Chalmers Medal in 1939, Harvard University's Flattery Medal in 1945, and the American Public Health Association's Lasker Award in 1949. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Laureates (1951-1975)