Max Teiler ( Eng. Max Theiler ; January 30, 1899 , Pretoria , South Africa - August 11, 1972 , New Haven , Connecticut , USA ) is an American virologist .
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| Awards and prizes | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( 1951 ) Lasker Prize - DeBakey for Clinical Medical Research ( 1949 ) Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research |
Biography
He began to study medicine at Rhodes University College , then in 1917-1918. at the University of Cape Town , in 1922 he improved in London . Since 1951, he was the head of the laboratories in the Department of Medicine and Health at the Rockefeller Foundation ( New York ) and, at the same time (since 1964 ), was a professor at Yale University School of Medicine.
Major works
The main studies on the etiology of amoebic dysentery , leptospirosis , Japanese encephalitis , monkey encephalomyelitis , etc.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize ( 1951 ) for the study of yellow fever virus and the creation of two specific vaccines for immunizing a person against this disease.
Works
- Studies on action of yellow fever virus in mice, "Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology", 1930, No. 24;
- Yellow fever protection test in mice by intracerebral injection, "Annals of tropical medicine and hygiene", 1933, No. 27.
Memory
In 1979, the International Astronomical Union named Max Teyler a crater on the visible side of the moon .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Teiler Max // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
Literature
- Teyler (Theiler) Max // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.