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Max Theiler

Max Theiler
South African virologist Max Theiler won the 1951 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Millions of individuals escaped the ravages of yellow fever, an incurable tropical disease, when Theiler’s research led to the development of a preventive vaccine.
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