biography
pronunciation:
[tiyler]
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| lived:
| (1899–1972)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Pretoria, South Africa. He settled in the USA in 1922, and worked at Harvard Medical School (1922–30) and the Rockefeller Institute, New York City (1930–64), and became professor at Yale Medical School (1964–7). He was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on yellow fever, for which he discovered the vaccine 17-D in 1939. |
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