Professor Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Preferred forename Macfarlane
Professor of medicine
Born
3 September 1899, Traralgon, Vic
Died
31 August 1985, Port Fairy, Vic
Sex
Male
Father
Frank Burnet (bank mgr)
Mother
Hadassah McKay
Married Edith Linda Marston Druce [qv]

Degrees

1922Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of SurgeryThe University of Melbourne
1924Doctor of MedicineThe University of Melbourne

Career

  • PhD Lond 1928.
  • FRS 1942, FAA 1963, FRACP 1947, FRCP Lond 1953.
  • Dir, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
  • Prof of Experimental Med, UMelb 1944-65.
  • Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Med 1960.
  • Knight bachelor 1951, OM 1958, KBE 1969, AK 1978.

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