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. 2024 Dec;72(12):108.
doi: 10.59556/japi.72.0750.

Sir Macfarlane Burnet-Immunologist

Jayant Pai-Dhungat  1
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Sir Macfarlane Burnet-Immunologist

Jayant Pai-Dhungat. J Assoc Physicians India. 2024 Dec.

Abstract

Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) was born in Victoria, Australia, and obtained his MD in 1924 from the University of Melbourne. Burnet spent 2 years in England at the Lister Institute, where he studied bacteriophages and earned a PhD in 1928. Returning to Australia, he worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute; as a bacteriologist, he continued his research on phages. Burnet then made a significant contribution by devising a method for cultivating viruses in a living chick embryo (1932-33).

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