Biologist

Max Theiler

South African-American virologist and doctor

1899 - 1972

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His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2024). Max Theiler is the 77th most popular biologist (down from 73rd in 2024), 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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#16 / 709

Max Theiler ranks #16 among 709 people in Pantheon born in South Africa, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Max Theiler climbed 1,478 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #8,019 to #6,546.

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Max Theiler's biography appears in 59 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 94% of all Biologists.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Max Theiler ranks 77 out of 1,121. 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 709. 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), Austin Stevens (1950), and Quarraisha Abdool Karim (1960).

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