Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane

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Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899–1985) Australian virologist, who spent his working life at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. In the early 1930s he developed a method of growing influenza virus in chick embryos. He later discovered that immunological tolerance required repeated exposure to the antigen. For this work he shared the 1960 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Sir Peter Medawar. He also proposed the clonal selection theory.

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