Sir franc MacFarlane Burnet (* 3 September 1899 in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia; "† 31 August 1985 in Melbourne, Australia) was an Australian physician. it received 1960 together with Peter Brian Medawar the Nobelpreis for physiology or medicine "“for its discovery of the acquired immunological tolerance"”.

Burnet found the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, which is the trip for Q-fever to 1937. It supplied substantial work for the Tumorimmunologie. MacFarlane, which has itself belonged to the time witnesses of the Spanish flu, which grassierte from 1918 to 1920 world-wide and at least 25 million victim demanded, in addition its entire life employs long with flu illnesses. MacFarlane belongs to the scientists, who represent for a long time the view the fact that the illness had its origin in the USA, was closely connected with the war conditions and particularly by the arrival by US-American troops in France to Europe was kidnapped. Today many scientists divide its view.

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