Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1948
Number:67 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Max Theiler
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1899
Year, Death:1972
Profession:Dr, member
Department:International Health Division
University:Rockefeller Foundation
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951
 
Motivation:Discovery that the tissue affinity of the yellow fever virus could be altered by passage through different species and by cultivation on various tissues; that such a modified virus could be used as a basis for an effective vaccine.
 
Nominator:
Name:A B Sabin
Profession:prof research pediatrics
City:Cincinnati
State:OH
Country:UNITED STATES (US)