Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize laureates
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1960 Physiology or Medicine
* 1899 Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
+ 1985 Melbourne, Australia
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Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 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
and he developed the theory of clonal selection.
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