Australian virologist (1899-1985)
He predicted the immune system could learn to tolerate foreign tissue before transplant surgeons knew they'd need it — an insight that won the 1960 Nobel and opened the door to every organ transplant since.
Burnet earned his medical degree from the University of Melbourne in 1924 and a PhD from London four years later, then spent the next four decades at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, serving as its director from 1944 to 1965. Along the way he identified the agents behind Q-fever and psittacosis, cracked how influenza strains recombine, and refined the egg-based virus culture methods that still underpin flu vaccine production. His theory of clonal selection reshaped immunology, explaining how the body generates its vast antibody repertoire. Australia named him its first Austral…
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I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.
I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced...
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