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1985-08-31
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Burnet, F. M.
(Frank Macfarlane),
Sir,
1899-1985
Traralgon (Vic.)
Port Fairy (Vic.)
Australia
England
Melbourne (Vic.)
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Virology
Immunology
Cellular recognition
Biology
Management
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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1923
1965
Commonwealth Foundation
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1962
1969
National Institute for Medical Research (Great Britain)
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Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
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University of Melbourne. School of Medicine
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1922
Physicians
Life scientists
Executives
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Frank Macfarlane
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane,
Sir,
1899-1985
Burnet, Macfarlane,
Sir,
1899-1985
His The use of the developing egg in virus research ... 1936.
Sexton, C. The seeds of time, 1991:
t.p. (Sir Macfarlane Burnet) Aus CIP (Burnet, Sir Macfarlane, 1899-1985)
NLM files, 4/6/93
(hdg.: Burnet, F. M. (Frank Macfarlane), Sir, 1899-1985; usage: F.M. Burnet, Macfarlane Burnet, F. Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Macfarlane Burnet)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 9 Nov. 2015:
individual entry (Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899-1985), virologist and immunologist, was born on 3 September 1899 in Traralgon, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia; In 1917 Burnet was admitted to the University of Melbourne; In 1922 he graduated MB; In 1923 he was appointed pathological registrar at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, where he was to spend the rest of his career; In 1925, the year after he had been awarded his MD degree, Burnet left for London and a position as assistant curator at the Lister Institute; In November 1931 Burnet was invited by Sir Henry Dale to spend two years at the National Institute for Medical Research at Hampstead, London; grow virus on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick embryo, a technique in which he was soon the acknowledged expert; In 1957 Burnet took the astonishing step of ending all of the institute's work in virology, and converting to immunology; Burnet retired from his directorship in 1965; from 1966 to 1969 he served as first chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation; Burnet died of cancer on 31 August 1985, at his son's farm in Port Fairy, Victoria.)