1899–1985 Australian immunologist and virologist who proposed the clonal selection theory of acquired immunity.
Keywords: influenza virus; clonal selection theory; antibody synthesis; immunological theory
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane
JM Cruse, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
RE Lewis, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002379
| Further Reading | |
| book Burnet FM (1941) The Production of Antibodies, a Review and a Theoretical Discussion. Melbourne: Macmillan. | |
| book Burnet FM (1953) Natural History of Infectious Disease, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| Burnet FM (1957) A modification of Jerne's theory of antibody production using the concept of clonal selection. Australian Journal of Science 20: 67. | |
| book Burnet FM (1962) Natural History of Infectious Disease, 3rd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Burnet FM (1967) The impact on ideas of immunology. In: Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, vol. 32. Antibodies, pp. 1–8. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. | |
| book Burnet FM (1969) Changing Patterns. An Atypical Autobiography. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company. | |
| book Burnet FM (1972) Natural History of Infectious Disease, 4th edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Burnet FM and Fenner F (1949) The Production of Antibodies, 2nd edn. Melbourne: Macmillan. | |
| Fenner F (1987) Frank Macfarlane Burnett. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 33: 160–162. | |
| Nossal GJV (1969) Burnet and science – an appreciation. Australian Annals of Medicine 4: 311–315. | |
| Talmage DW (1957) Allergy and immunology. Annual Review of Medicine 8: 239. | |
| Wood TJ (1969) Burnet and medicine. Australian Annals of Medicine 4: 301–309. | |
| Wood TJ (1970) Burnet of Australia. Postgraduate Medical Journal 46: 175–181. | |
