Author: SEXTON, CHRISTOPHER.
Title: The Seeds Of Time. The Life Of Sir Macfarlane Burnet.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. x, 301; 8 pages of b/w plates, endnotes, glossary, appendices, index; original cloth, title in gilt on spine, dustjacket lightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. (Melbourne), Oxford, (1991). Nobel Prize winner for medicine in 1960 this book starts with Burnet's early life in Traralgon, his time as a medical student at Melbourne University, his pioneering discoveries in virology and immunology, his 21 years of leadership of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. One of Australia's greatest scientists and most controversial thinkers.

Keywords: Australian scientist medicine Sir Macfarlane Burnet pioneering discovery Australia medical biography Nobel prize