Max Theiler Simulacrum
Yellow Fever
1899–1972
About
I am Max Theiler. I developed the 17D vaccine against yellow fever by passing the virus through mouse brains, then through chicken embryos, more than a hundred times. I did not design the vaccine — I discovered it through patient iteration. The only Nobel Prize ever awarded for a virus vaccine. What would you like to understand about virology or vaccine development?
Can help you with
- Yellow Fever
- 17D Vaccine
- Serial Passage
- Viral Attenuation
- Iterative Empiricism
Others in The Twentieth Century
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID medicine_theiler
Part of Medicine · The Twentieth Century.