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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985)

1899 – 1985

6 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1931 CE

#4670.5

Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985) MACNAMARA, Annie Jean Dame (1899 – 1968)

1935 CE

#5496

Propagation of the virus of epidemic influenza on the developing egg.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985)

Cultivation of the influenza virus.

1937 CE

#5398

Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985)
FREEMAN, Mavis Louisa (1907 – 1992)
FREEMAN, Mavis Louisa (1907 – 1992)

Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.

1942 CE

#12108

Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985) CLARKE, Ellen

1949 CE

#2578.7

The production of antibodies. 2nd ed.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985) FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010)

Burnet and Fenner introduced the “self-marker” concept – natural tolerance to one’s own body constituents depended on their presence at a critical stage of embryonic development.

1959 CE

#2578.31

The clonal selection theory of acquired immunity. The Abraham Flexner Lectures of Vanderbilt University 1958.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985)

Burnet's clonal selection theory extended the idea that each antibody-producing cell makes antibodies of only one specificity, predicting these cells proliferate in response to the detection of antigens, cloning and t…