Yellow fever and Max Theiler: the only Nobel Prize for a virus vaccine

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...

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Autor principal: Norrby, Erling
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2007
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Historical Feature
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2118520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18039952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20072290
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description 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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spelling pubmed-21185202008-05-26 Yellow fever and Max Theiler: the only Nobel Prize for a virus vaccine Norrby, Erling J Exp Med Historical Feature 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. The Rockefeller University Press 2007-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2118520/ /pubmed/18039952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20072290 Text en Copyright © 2007, The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2118520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18039952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20072290
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