Series 3 - Nobel Laureate Files


Date Range21 October 1954 - 30 September 1985
Quantity17 cm, 14 files
ProvenanceFrank Macfarlane Burnet
Description

Correspondence, bibliographies, notes, speeches, menus, scrapbook, press conference typescript, memoranda, travel papers, newspaper cuttings, and photographs.


Inventory Listing

3-1 Nomination and Nobel Prize correspondence

Inwards and outwards correspondence including letter of congratulations from T. Wesslen, letter from G. Grimwade to E.S.J. King, official notifications of Prize from Nobel Committee, correspondence relating to F.M. Burnet's nomination, with Sir Henry Dale, F. Fenner, The Wellcome Trust and two typed bibliographies of F.M. Burnet's scientific work (1954 and 1958)

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 21 October 1954 - 16 November 1960    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/001 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-2 Nobel Prize trip - including India and S.E. Asia

Inwards correspondence on arrangements for visit to India, from W.R. Crocker (Australian High Commission, New Delhi), Amrit Kaur and others, inwards correspondence on visit to Singapore, with typescript notes on visit (transcripts of press reports?). Also includes single page typescript (copy) of speech to 'students' on receipt of Nobel Prize (no date, 1960) and Nobel Dinner menu card (10 December 1960)

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 2 December 1960 - 30 December 1960    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/002 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-3 Nobel Prize scrap book

Loose-leaf 'scrap book' material on history of Nobel Prize, official Nobel Laureates memo, press cuttings and photographs. Includes correspondence from Royal Swedish Legation, typescript of F.M. Burnet press conference (8 December 1960), correspondence from P. Medawar (26 October 1960), correspondence from Medical Students Association of Stockholm, memoranda on reception and banquet for Nobel Laureates, details of F.M. Burnet's itinerary, Nobel Foundation pamphlets, set of official invitations to dinners and functions, extracts from journals and magazines including Life magazine spread on Nobel Banquet (with pictures of F.M. Burnet and Lady Burnet), press cuttings on F.M. Burnet (from Scandinavian press, December 1960), reprints and pamphlets on history of Nobel Prize and photograph; mounted photograph of Nobel Prize Banquet, 10 December 1960. See also 6/22 and 6/11

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 26 October 1960 - 9 March 1961    Quantity 2.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/003 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-4 Press cuttings - Australian

Australian press cuttings on Burnet's and Medawar's Nobel Prize and other topics. Includes press reports on Burnet and polio, Burnet and WEHI, Lady Burnet, medical research funding policy and cutting from Illustrated London News

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range October 1960 - December 1960    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/004 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-5 Photographs - Nobel Prize Functions

Seventeen photographs of Burnet and others at Nobel functions. Burnet, Medawar, Glaser and others, 10 December 1960; Burnet, Medawar, Glaser and others, December 1960; Nobel Banquet, Great Hall, Stockholm, December 1960; Sir Frank and Lady Burnet and others at airport (Stockholm?), 1960; W.F. Libby, P. Medawar, F.M. Burnet, D.A. Glaser and S-J. Perse, Nobel recipients, 10 December 1960; Princess Margherita, F.M. Burnet and others entering Banquet Hall, 10 December 1960; Nobel Prize - conferment of awards, 10 December 1960; Nobel Prize - conferment ceremony, 10 December 1960; F.M. Burnet, Linda Burnet, P. Medawar, Mrs. Medawar(?), Stockholm, no date, December 1960; Burnet and Princess Margherita at Nobel Banquet, 10 December 1960; Royal procession, Nobel Banquet(?), December 1960; F.M. Burnet delivering speech(?) with Glaser and Medawar and others, no date, 1960; F.M. Burnet with Sven Gard, no date, 1960; F.M. Burnet and Princess Margherita at Nobel Banquet, 10 December 1960; Burnet's and Medawar's Nobel Prize (color), no date, 1960

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1960    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/005b Box Number 15 Series 3
3-5 Photographs - Nobel Prize functions (featuring Lady Burnet)

Seventeen photographs of Burnet and others at Nobel functions. Mostly unlabelled press photos; labelled photographs; Nobel Prize ceremony - including Lady Burnet, Mrs. P. Medawar and Swedish Royalty, Stockholm, 10 December 1960. Nobel Banquet - King Gustav-Adolf with Lady Burnet and Mrs. Glaser, Stockholm, 10 December 1960. Nobel Banquet - King Gustav-Adolf with Lady Burnet and D.A. Glaser, 10 December 1960

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range December 1960    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/005a Box Number 15 Series 3
3-6 Nobel correspondence - Nobel Prize Winners meeting, Lindau 1-5 July 1963

Inwards an outwards correspondence with Count Lennart Bernadotte, Nobel Prize Winners' Kuratorium

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 8 November 1962 - 11 January 1963    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/006 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-7 Nobel Laureates' Petition to the Pope

Typescript copy of petition to Pope on population and fertility control and Papal Commission on fertility control. England and American versions, including F.M. Burnet as signatory

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 18 March 1965    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/007 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-8 Typescript - 'Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine 1960'. Frank Macfarlane Burnet (jointly)

Copy typescript of article written by F.M. Burnet(?), published in Italian no date,

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range c. 1971    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/008 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-9 Nobel Prizewinners film series - Pilgrim Films

Inwards and outwards correspondence with Pilgrim Films, B. Wood, D. Emery. Includes copy of 'Rough Shooting Script' for film on F.M. Burnet

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 20 August 1973 - 1 May 1975    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/009 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-10 Nobel correspondence - Nobel Foundation 75th Anniversary, 8-12 December 1975

Inwards and outwards correspondence with Nobel Foundation, S. Ramel, U.S. von Euler, M. Sherwood (New Scientist, science policy editor) with typescript of F.M. Burnet's reaction to Nobel Prize for New Scientist and Faber Foundation

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 13 January 1973 - 18 July 1975    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/010 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-11 Nobel correspondence - 25th Meeting of Nobel Prize winners, Lindau 23-27 June 1975

Inwards and outwards correspondence with Count Lennart Bernadotte, Nobel Prize Winners Kuratorium. Includes reprint of German translation of paper given at meeting: 'Mutation, Somatische Mutation und Krankheit beim Menschen', Naturwissenschafliche Rundschau, September 1976

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 14 October 1974 - September 1976    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/011 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-12 Nobel correspondence - Nobel Prize Committee and Nominations

Correspondence and nomination forms, mostly for 1977. Physiology/Medicine Nobel Prize and nomination of D.A. Henderson. Includes correspondence with F. Fenner, Medical Nobel Committee, Australian Academy of Science, Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine (1984). Includes pamphlets and extracts on history of Nobel Prize, and pre-publication reprint of 'The Eradication of Smallpox' by F. Fenner

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 10 January 1977 - 30 September 1985    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/012 Box Number 15 Series 3
3-13 Nobel correspondence - The Holland Forum 29 May - 2 June 1985

Inwards and outwards correspondence on planned trip to Netherlands for Holland Forum Nobel Laureates Meeting. Includes correspondence with: International Foundation of Scientists, M. Stern, Holland Forum Foundation, Mick Dexter(?) - personal letter, P. Medawar, R.F.M. Lubbers. Includes typescripts of Dutch press reports and form letters from Dutch officials. See also file 6/75

Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 27 January 1984 - 18 April 1985    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 03/013 Box Number 15 Series 3

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