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Macfarlane Burnet

1899 - 1985

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Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance. He also developed the theory of clonal selection. Burnet received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Melbourne in 1924, and his PhD from the University of London in 1928. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Macfarlane Burnet is the 18th most popular biologist (up from 121st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Australia (up from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Macfarlane Burnet ranks 18 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Landsteiner, Robert Edwards, Robert Brown, Georges Cuvier, George Beadle, and Alfred Russel Wallace. After him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Élie Metchnikoff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jules Bordet, Edward Tatum, and Yoshinori Ohsumi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Macfarlane Burnet ranks 13. Before him are Lavrentiy Beria, Vladimir Nabokov, Yasunari Kawabata, Friedrich Hayek, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, and Humphrey Bogart. After him are Francis Poulenc, Paul-Henri Spaak, László Bíró, Albert Claude, Iskander Mirza, and Fred Astaire. Among people deceased in 1985, Macfarlane Burnet ranks 7. Before him are Marc Chagall, Enver Hoxha, Konstantin Chernenko, Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, and Charles Francis Richter. After him are Orson Welles, Rodney Robert Porter, Italo Calvino, Fernand Braudel, Carl Schmitt, and Jean Dubuffet.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Macfarlane Burnet ranks 2 out of 1,143. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890). After him are Gough Whitlam (1916), Don Bradman (1908), Peter C. Doherty (1940), George Miller (1945), Geoffrey Rush (1951), Tamam Shud case (1903), Sia (1975), John Cornforth (1917), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), and Cate Blanchett (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Australia

Among biologists born in Australia, Macfarlane Burnet ranks 1. After him are Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), David Bruce (1855), Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936), David A. Sinclair (1969), Frank Fenner (1914), and Suzanne Cory (1942).

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