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Life Summary

Name	Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Born	3 September, 1899 Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Died	31 August, 1985 (aged 85) Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
Cultural Heritage	Scottish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
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Education *	Geelong College (Vic) (student, 1913-1917) Ormond College (University of Melbourne) (student, 1918-1922) University of Melbourne (student, 1918-1922) University of London (student, 1925-1927)
Occupation or Descriptor *	virologist (1933-1957) Victoria, Australia academic (1944-1965) Victoria, Australia immunologist (1957-1978) Victoria, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1968-1968) Victoria, Australia
Awards	Cilento Medal (Australian Institute of Anatomy) (recipient, 1939) Knight Bachelor (recipient, 1951) James Cook Medal (Royal Society of New South Wales) (recipient, 1954) Order of Merit (recipient, 1958) Copley Medal (Royal Society) (recipient, 1959) Matthew Flinders Medal (Australian Academy of Science) (recipient, 1959) Australian of the Year (recipient, 1960) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (recipient, 1960) Mueller Medal (ANZAAS) (recipient, 1962) Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1969) Knight of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1978)
Legacies *	Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Royal Society of London (UK) (fellow, 1942-1985) International Association of Microbiological Societies (president, 1953-1957) Royal College of Physicians (fellow, 1953-1985) Australian Academy of Science (fellow, 1954-1985) Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (honorary fellow, 1954-1985) Australian Radiation Advisory Committee (chair, 1955-1959) Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (president, 1957-1957) Australian Academy of Science (president, 1965-1969) Australian Academy of Science (president, 1965-1969) British Commonwealth Foundation (chair, 1966-1969)
Workplaces *	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Melbourne) (scientist, 1925-1965) University of Melbourne (medicine) (academic, 1944-1965) Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Melbourne) (director, 1944-1965)

* Dates are approximate