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Accession Number:  89 34
Name: BURNET, FRANK MACFARLANE, SIR    

Sex: Male   Group: University, individuals

Activity: Immunologists
Nobel Prize winners

Location: Melbourne


Historical Note:

Born at Traralgon Victoria in 1899, Professor Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was assistant director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute the University of Melbourne 1928-31 and 1934-44, becoming Director and Professor of Experimental Medicine 1944-1965. He was award the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960, joint, and the Mueller Medal for contributions to science at the 1962 ANZAAS Congress and received various other awards in recognition of his contributions to medicine and science. He died in 1985.


Earliest Date: 1880   Latest Date: 1985
Access: Open 

Quantity: 65 archives boxes


Description:

Personal papers including correspondence, certificates, speeches, sketches, manuscripts, photographs, receipts and accounts 1913-1990; diaries and notebooks 1880-1985; Nobel Laureate files 1954-1985; publications 1942-1984; manuscripts with publishing correspondence and reviews 1950-1986; draft manuscripts with correspondence and working papers 1930s-1985; correspondence and subject files; Walter and Eliza Institute files; working papers and subject files; X-Disease, Kuru and Gajdusek files 1923-1980; index cards 1950s-1970s; scrapbooks 1930s- 1985; drawings and watercolours 1921-1932; photographs 1900-1984; projection slides 1932-1979; audio and video cassettes; personal correspondence between Linda Burnet and family 1931-1933.


Persons: Burnet, Linda

Organisations: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Places: Australia
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United Kingdom
United States

Subjects: Medicine
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Medical research
Medical history
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Medical Ethics

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