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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 193,087 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Max Theiler is the 65th most popular biologist (up from 69th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 18th 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 65 out of 841. Before him are Hugo Theorell, Stanley B. Prusiner, Ernst Mayr, Hermann Joseph Muller, Linda B. Buck, and George Beadle. After him are John Edward Gray, Herman Boerhaave, Alexander Oparin, John Franklin Enders, Lynn Margulis, and Irwin Rose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Max Theiler ranks 31. Before him are George Cukor, Cevdet Sunay, Jean Moulin, Paul-Henri Spaak, Bertil Ohlin, and Gustav Heinemann. After him are Alfred Schütz, Ferhat Abbas, Georg von Békésy, Emma Morano, Bronislav Kaminski, and Lucio Fontana. Among people deceased in 1972, Max Theiler ranks 25. Before him are Andrei Tupolev, Maurice Chevalier, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Talal of Jordan, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, and Paul-Henri Spaak. After him are Heinrich Lübke, Asta Nielsen, Georg von Békésy, Ferdinand Čatloš, Margaret Rutherford, and Jackie Robinson.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Max Theiler ranks 14 out of 374. Before him are Christiaan Barnard (1922), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Miriam Makeba (1932), Charlize Theron (1975), and Jacob Zuma (1942). After him are Thabo Mbeki (1942), Paul Kruger (1825), Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924), P. W. Botha (1916), and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952).

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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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