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Yellow fever and Max Theiler: the only Nobel Prize for a virus vaccine
J Exp Med. 2007 Nov 26;204(12):2779-84
Erling Norrby
Center for the History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
erling.norrby@kva.se
ABSTRACT
In 1951, Max Theiler of the Rockefeller Foundation received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever—a discovery first reported in the JEM 70 years ago. This was the first, and so far the only, Nobel Prize given for the development of a virus vaccine. Recently released Nobel archives now reveal how the advances in the yellow fever vaccine field were evaluated more than 50 years ago, and how this led to a prize for Max Theiler. |
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发表于 2015-7-23 14:03:36
