Editing Max Theiler (section)

{{short description|South African-American virologist and physician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| image       = Max Theiler nobel.jpg
| name        = Max Theiler
| caption     = Theiler in 1951
| birth_date  = {{birth date|df=yes|1899|1|30}}
| birth_place = [[Pretoria]], [[South African Republic]] (present-day [[South Africa]])
| death_date  = {{death date and age|df=yes|1972|8|11|1899|1|30}}
| death_place = [[New Haven, Connecticut]], U.S.
| nationality = South Africa, American
| field       = [[Virology]]
| known_for   = Developing a [[vaccine]] against [[yellow fever]]
| prizes      = [[Chalmers Medal]] {{small|(1939)}}<br>[[Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award]] <small>(1949)</small><br>[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] <small>(1951)</small>
| alma_mater = [[University of Cape Town]]
}}
'''Max Theiler''' (30 January 1899 – 11 August 1972) was a [[South African American|South African-American]] [[virology|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.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1951/index.html
 | title = The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951
 | access-date = 2017-11-30
 | publisher = Nobel Foundation
}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1951/theiler/biographical/|title=Max Theiler – Biographical|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-12}}</ref>