Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre

Frank Macfarlane Burnet Guide to Records

Listed by Gavan McCarthy, Oscar Manhal, Lisa O'Sullivan and Rachel Tropea with Tim Sherratt

Macfarlane Burnet was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne 1944-1966 and in 1960 was awarded the Nobel Prize with Peter Medewar for Physiology and Medicine. He not only played a major role in the development of medical research in Australia but also contributed consistently to the public debate of many social issues including nuclear energy and weapons, environmental concerns and the philosophy of the modern world. This is the first comprehensive set of personal records to be preserved of an Australian Nobel Prize winner in science. [Details]

About the records
Provenance - creators and former custodians
Series list and summary descriptions
Inventory listing by series
- Series 1 - Personal - Biographical
- Series 2 - Diaries and Notebooks
- Series 3 - Nobel Laureate Files
- Series 4 - Publications by F. M. Burnet
- Series 5 - Book Manuscripts with Publishing Correspondence and Reviews
- Series 6 - Draft Manuscripts with Correspondence and Working Papers
- Series 7 - Correspondence - Subject Files
- Series 8 - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Files
- Series 9 - Working Papers - Subject Files
- Series 10 - X-Disease, Kuru and Gajdusek Files
- Series 11 - Index Cards
- Series 12 - Scrapbooks
- Series 13 - Drawings and Watercolours
- Series 14 - Photographs
- Series 15 - Projection Slides
- Series 16 - Audio and Video Cassettes
- Series 17 - Personal Correspondence between Linda Burnet and Family
- Series 18 - Oral History Interviews conducted by Christopher Sexton - Audio CD copies
- Series 19 - Appendices
Gallery
Index
Search
These records are managed by the The University of Melbourne Archives. All queries relating to access should be made to the reference archivist quoting 1986.0107 and the required inventory identifier(s).
Processing of this collection and generation of this finding aid was made possible with the support of
- The Jack Brockhoff Foundation
- The E.B. Myer Charitable Fund
- The University of Melbourne

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, November, 2001
With support from The Jack Brockhoff Foundation, The E.B. Myer Charitable Fund and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Gavan McCarthy, Oscar Manhal, Lisa O'Sullivan and Rachel Tropea with Tim Sherratt
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Updated 14 May 2008
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/burn/burn.htm

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