
%0 Journal Article
%A Rood, Sarah 
%A Sheedy, Katherine 
%T Frank Macfarlane Burnet
%J Microbiology Australia
%D 2009/07/01
%V 30
%N 3
%P 10-10
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MA09S10
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MA09S10 
%X Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was born in Traralgon, Victoria, in 1899. He received his medical degree in 1924 from the University of Melbourne and performed research (1925-27) at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London. After receiving his PhD from the University of London (1928), Burnet – usually known as Mac – became Assistant Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research at Royal Melbourne Hospital. From 1944-65 he was Director of the Institute and Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Melbourne. 
