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Frank Macfarlane Burnet (3 de septiembre de 1899 – 31 de agosto de 1985) fue un biólogo australiano. Fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1960, junto con Peter Brian Medawar, por el descubrimiento de la tolerancia a tejidos trasplantados.
Burnet has embodied his experience and experimental results, not only in numerous scientific papers, but in several books which show that he is a master, not only of a clear and attractive literary style, but also of lucid exposition of complex ideas and scientific facts.
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE FRS FAA FRSNZ (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and he developed the theory of clonal selection.
With the death of Frank Macfarlane Burnet on 31 August 1985, Australia lost its greatest biologist, a man who had spent virtually all of a long working life in Australia. His experimental work on bacteriophages and animal viruses, especially influenza virus, resulted in major discoveries concerning their nature and replication, and he was a ...
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960 . Born: 3 September 1899, Traralgon, Australia . Died: 31 August 1985, Melbourne, Australia . Affiliation at the time of the award: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia . Prize motivation: “for discovery of acquired immunological ...
One of the pre-eminent pioneers of that age was an Australian physician-scientist named Frank Macfarlane Burnet. His prodigious and ingenious work in the fields of immunology, virology and bacteriology provided the foundation for a myriad of medical breakthroughs.
Burnet's clonal selection theory not only had great implications for modern immunology but was also monumental in spearheading immunology research in Australia.
