Who Won the 1951
Nobel Prize Medicine

Philanthropy as Backer of Brains
Huffington Post
The vaccine would eventually be developed a decade later by a team led by the Foundation's Max Theiler who would be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1951. Such is the nature of innovation -- often an incremental process of improving upon others' invention.

Hilary Koprowski, 96
Watching the Watchers.org
In the 1930s Max Theiler had found that propagating yellow fever virus in an unnatural host -- the chick embryo -- dramatically reduced its capacity to cause disease in humans. Theiler's work (which garnered him a Nobel Prize) lead to the production of ...

Hilary Koprowski, Who Developed First Live-Virus Polio Vaccine, Dies at 96
New York Times
The first successful live-virus vaccine of any kind was for yellow fever, developed in the late 1930s by the virologist Max Theiler; for his work, he received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The method Theiler devised for attenuating ...

AreaSnapshots
Montana Standard
Joining the Montana State volleyball program are Cassie Krueger, a 6-foot outside hitter from Kalispell; Loni Kreun, a 6-foot outside hitter from Davis, Calif.; Christine Markowski, a 6-foot-4 middle blocker from Orlando, Fla.; Danae Theiler, a 6-foot ...