biography
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Nossal, Sir Gustav (Joseph Victor)
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Immunologist, born in Bad Ischl, C Austria. He studied at the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and was appointed research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (1957), deputy director (1961), and director (1965. He was also professor of medical biology at Melbourne University. In 1978 he gave the ABC's Boyer Lecture, entitled ‘Nature's Defences’. His discovery of the ‘one cell–one antibody’ rule is crucial to modern work in immunology. |
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