Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, M.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960
Co-Nobelist Peter Medawar

Physician – Pathologist, Immunologist, Virologist, Bacteriologist. Discovered acquired immunological tolerance - important for transplantation. Cultivated viruses on chorioallantoic membrane, determined inoculated material concentration. Red blood cells haemagglutination by viruses. Virus complexity. Neuropathogenicity transfer. Virus infections prevention. Typhoid fever agglutinin reactions. Isolated influenza A virus strain. Vibrio cholera receptor-destroying enzyme. Excellent teacher.

Images

Macfarlane Burnet, as a boy, with sisters Doris and Anne. Source: Wiki.

Wedding Photo, Marriage of F. M. Burnet and E. L. M. (Linda) Druce, 10 July 1928. Source:Wiki.

Burnet working in the laboratory in 1945. Photo: N Murray, Source: Wiki.

Peter Colman, Officer of the CSIRO at the Division of Protein Chemistry, showing his flu protein (neuraminidase) model to Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Photo: CSIRO, Wiki.

Coxiella burnetii, causative agent of Q fever, named after Burnet. NIAID Biodefense Image Library, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH. Source: Wiki.

Nobel laureate Frank Macfarlane Burnet with wife Linda and daughters. 8 Dec 1960. Photo Wiki.

Fran Macfarlane Burnet Australian Stamp. Source: Wiki.

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