Theiler
[ tahy-ler ]
/ ˈtaɪ lər /
noun
Max,1899–1972,
South African medical scientist, in the U.S. after 1922: Nobel Prize in medicine 1951.
Example sentences from the Web for theiler
Theiler has determined that it is transmitted by an Ixodid tick, Margaropus decoloratus.
Handbook of Medical Entomology |William Albert RileyThe cockroach as an experimental vector of the virus of spontaneous mouse encephalomyelitis (Theiler).
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches |Louis M. Roth
British Dictionary definitions for theiler
Theiler
/ (ˈtaɪlə) /
noun
Max. 1899–1972, US virologist, born in South Africa, who developed a vaccine against yellow fever. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1951
Medical definitions for theiler
Theiler
[ tī′lər ]
South African-born American microbiologist. He won a 1951 Nobel Prize for developing a vaccine for yellow fever.