Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Setting Patterns: the Atypical Choices That Shaped the Career of Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet in Twentieth-Century Australia
- In
- Korean Journal for the History of Science
- Imprint
- vol. 35, no. 2, Koreanstudies Information Service System, 2013-08, pp. 343-364
- Url
- https://kiss.kstudy.com/Detail/Ar?key=3216592
- Subject
- Chronological Classification 1901- Applied Sciences Medical and Health Sciences
- Format
- Abstract
The scientific life of the Australian biologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet is examined against the context of the development of an independent Australian scientific identity over the course of the twentieth century. Born in 1899 Burnet was part of a generation of Australians who needed to travel abroad to gain research credentials, but is atypical in that he became one of the first to deliberately return after obtaining his PhD to pursue an active research career. He played a pivotal role in putting Australian medical research on the world's map, both through his own significant research in the fields of animal virology and immunology, and as director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI), which under his leadership gained an international reputation for excellence. This paper attempts to tease out the relationships between Burnet, WEHI, and Australia and to place Burnet's life and work in their institutional and national contexts.
- Source
- Cohn 2013
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