| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Number: | 67 - 0 |
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Nominee:
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | A B Sabin |
| Profession: | prof research pediatrics |
| City: | Cincinnati |
| State: | OH |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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