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Max Theiler
South African-American virologist and doctor (1899-1972)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 January 1899, 1899
- Died
- 11 August 1972, 1972
- Place of birth
- Pretoria
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Max
- Family name
- Theiler
- Field of work
- virus
- Occupation
- physician, chemist, virologist
- Position held
- professor
- Citizenship
- United States, South Africa
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Chalmers Medal
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Dictionary of African Biography, Kurze Lebens-Notizen zu der Portrait-Gallerie merkwürdiger Luzerner auf der Bürgerbibliothek in Luzern
- educated at
- St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University of Cape Town, King's College London, Rhodes University, Pretoria Boys High School
- interested in
- bacteriology
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Hasle
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