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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Theiler has received more than 199,550 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Theiler is the 73rd most popular biologist (down from 65th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 14th 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 73 out of 1,097. Before him are August Weismann, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Alexander Oparin, Robert Edwards, Ferdinand Cohn, and Herman Boerhaave. After him are Ernst Mayr, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Svante Pääbo, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Bernard Katz, and Philip Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Max Theiler ranks 30. Before him are George Cukor, Paul-Henri Spaak, Gustav Heinemann, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Cevdet Sunay, and Bertil Ohlin. After him are Alfred Schütz, Gloria Swanson, Charles Laughton, Ferhat Abbas, Jean Moulin, and Georg von Békésy. Among people deceased in 1972, Max Theiler ranks 27. Before him are Maurice Chevalier, Dino Buzzati, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Andrei Tupolev, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Heinrich Lübke. After him are Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Ghassan Kanafani, Georg von Békésy, Emil Maurice, Henri Coandă, and Margaret Rutherford.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Max Theiler ranks 13 out of 454. Before him are F. W. de Klerk (1936), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Shaka (1787), Desmond Tutu (1931), Christiaan Barnard (1922), and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952). After him are Charlize Theron (1975), Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), Jacob Zuma (1942), Thabo Mbeki (1942), Paul Kruger (1825), and P. W. Botha (1916).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

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

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