Max Theiler was born on January 30, 1899, in Pretoria,
South Africa, one of the four children of Sir Arnold and Emma (née
Jegge) Theiler. His father was a well-known veterinary scientist. He attended
local schools except for one year in Basle, Switzerland (his father was of Swiss
origin), then went on to Rhodes University College, Grahamstown and the University
of Capetown Medical School (1916-1918). He then went to England to study at
St. Thomas' Hospital and at the London School of Tropical Medicine, receiving
his medical degree in 1922. In the same year he became a Licentiate of the Royal
College of Physicians and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
In 1922 he joined the Department of Tropical Medicine at the Harvard Medical
School, Boston, Massachusetts, first as an assistant, then being appointed instructor.
In 1930 he joined the staff of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller
Foundation, becoming, in 1951, Director of Laboratories of the Rockefeller Foundation's
Division of Medicine and Public Health, New York.
His early work, at Harvard, dealt with amoebic dysentery and rat bite fever.
He also worked on the problem of yellow fever, a subject in which he had become
interested whilst still in London. This was to become his major interest. By
1927 he and his colleagues had proved that the cause of yellow fever was not
a bacterium but a filterable virus. He also demonstrated that the disease could
be readily transmitted to mice. Previously, laboratory work on this topic had
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was engaged in a broad attack on the problem of yellow fever. Here, Theiler
and his colleagues worked on vaccines against the disease and eventually developed
a safe, standardized vaccine, 17D, one advantage of which was its ready adaptability
to mass production.
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has been of great interest to him and he discovered an apparently identical
disorder in laboratory mice which is now sometimes called Theiler's disease
(encephalomyelitis).
Dr. Theiler has been a contributor to two books, Viral and Rickettsial Infections
of Man (1948) and Yellow Fever (1951). He has also written numerous
papers in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Annals of
Tropical Medicine and Parasitology.
Honours awarded to him include the Chalmer's Medal of the Royal Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene (London, 1939), the Flattery Medal (Harvard, 1945), and
the Lasker Award of the Lasker Foundation (1949).
He married Lillian Graham in 1928. They have one daughter.This autobiography/biography
was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series
Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The information is sometimes updated
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Max Theiler died on August 11, 1972.
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