Speech

By: Max Theiler

Date: December 11, 1951

Source: Theiler, Max. "The Development of Vaccines Against Yellow Fever." Available online at http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1951/theiler-lecture... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se/ (accessed June 9, 2003)

About the Author: Max Theiler (1899–1972) was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and received an M.D. from the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1922. That year he joined Harvard Medical School's Department of Tropical Medicine, rising to the rank of instructor. In 1930, he joined the Rockefeller Foundation, becoming Director of Laboratories in 1951. His development of the first yellow fever vaccine won him the 1951 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology.

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