Sir Macfarlane Burnet-Immunologist
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).
Authors
- J V Pai-Dhungat
Institutions
- Topiwala National Medical College & BYL Nair Charitable Hospital (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.59556/japi.72.0750
- Primary Topic
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00