Philanthropy as Backer of Brains 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 ... Joining
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