Burnet: A Life

by Christopher Sexton

Sir Macfarlane Burnet -- Nobel laureate, member of Order of Merit, Australia's most honored citizen at the time of his death -- was a giant of twentieth-century science. Burnet: A Life, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth, tells the story of Burnets complex genius: his early life in Taralgon; his pioneering discoveries in the fields of virology and immunology; his original theorizing on the body immune system, which led to his Nobel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195511654
• ISBN13: 9780195511659
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"