Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet by Corey and Jack
| Sir Frank Macfarlane
Burnet was born Traralgon. Victoria Australia on September 3rd 1899. He
was the son of the manager
of the branch of the Colonial Bank in that town. He was educated at the
Victoria State Schools and at Geelong College. Frank did his
medical course at the University of Melbourne and he graduated in
1922. He did very good medical research on viruses and he is very famous for this work which has saved many peoples lives. In 1926 Frank was awarded a Beit Fellowship for medical research. he worked at Lister Institute in London for a year. In 1932 he spent a year at the National Institute for Medical Research Hampstead, London. Otherwise he has worked at the Hall Institute in Melbourne except when he has gone to other countries to give lectures. |
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Burnet received many honours and distinctions. Some of these were the
Fellowship of the Royal Society of London where he was awarded the royal
medal in 1947 and the Copley medal in 1959. He holds an honorary doctorate of the
University of Cambridge and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of
Surgeons in 1953. King George the Sixth knighted him in 1951 and in 1958 he received the Order of Merit. |
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He married Edith Linda Druce in 1928. He had one son called Ian and two daughters
called Elizabeth and Deborah. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet died in 1985. |
