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Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian virologist (1899-1985)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 September 1899
- Died
- 31 August 1985
- Place of birth
- Traralgon
- Place of death
- Melbourne
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Frank, MacFarlane
- Family name
- Burnet
- Field of work
- immunology, virology
- Occupation
- immunologist, virologist, physician, chemist, researcher
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Awards
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Emil-von-Behring-Prize, Australian of the Year, James Cook Medal, Mueller Medal, Order of Merit, Order of the Rising Sun, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
- academic degree
- Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy
- cause of death
- cancer
- doctoral advisor
- John Ledingham
- educated at
- University of Melbourne, University of London
- employer
- University of Melbourne
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- interested in
- immunology
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Australian Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences
- military, police or special rank
- knight
- name in native language
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- professorship
- professor
- residence
- Canterbury
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- The viruses; biochemical, biological, and biophysical properties
- Influenza : a survey of the last 50 years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza
- Virus as organism
- The production of antibodies
- The production of antibodies
- Viruses and man
- Enzyme antigen and virus; a study of macromolecular pattern in action
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