Person
Fenner, Frank John (1914 - 2010)
AC CMG FAA FRS
- Born
- 21 December 1914
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 22 November 2010
- Occupation
- Microbiologist and Virologist
Summary
Frank Fenner was Director of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra 1973-1979. Earlier he was Professor of Microbiology 1949-1967, and Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research 1967-1973 at ANU. Fenner was known for his work in the eradication of smallpox and controlling Australia's rabbit plague.
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Chronology
- 1938
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Adelaide
- 1940
- Education - DTM, University of Sydney
- 1940 - 1946
- Military service - Second World War. Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps. Served in Egypt and New Guinea
- 1942
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Adelaide
- 1944
- Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE, military)
- 1946 - 1948
- Career position - Haley Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- 1948 - 1949
- Career position - Rockefeller Travelling Fellow
- 1949
- Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne
- 1949 - 1967
- Career position - Professor of Microbiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1954 - 2010
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1958 - 2010
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1959
- Award - Walter Burfitt Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1964
- Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1964 - 1965
- Career position - President, Australian Society for Microbiology
- 1967
- Award - Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science
- 1967
- Award - Brittanica Australia Award for Medicine
- 1967 - 1973
- Career position - Director, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1973 - 1979
- Career position - Director, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1976
- Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
- 1977
- Career position - Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 1977 - 1980
- Career position - Chairman of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication, World Health Organization (WHO)
- 1980
- Award - ANZAC Peace Prize
- 1980
- Award - ANZAAS Medal (Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science)
- 1980 - 2010
- Career position - Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra
- 1981 - 1985
- Career position - Chairman of the Committee on Orthopoxvirus Infections, World Health Organization (WHO)
- 1983
- Career position - Florey Lecture given at the Royal Society, London
- 1985
- Award - Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science
- 1988
- Award - WHO Medal
- 1988
- Award - Japan Prize
- 1989
- Award - Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
- 1994
- Career position - Frank Fenner Medal established to honour the most outstanding PhD thesis submitted each year in the John Curtin School of Medical Research
- 1995
- Award - Copley Medal, The Royal Society, London
- 1999
- Award - Senior Australian Achiever of the Year award
- 2000
- Award - Albert Einstein World Award for Science
- 2002
- Award - Clunies Ross Lifetime Contribution Award
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Frank John Fenner - Records, 1920 - 2010, MS 143; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
South Australian Museum Archives
- Frank John Fenner - Records, 1890 - 1951, AD 34; South Australian Museum Archives. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Books
- FENNER, Frank, Nature, Nurture and Chance: the Lives of Frank and Charles Fenner (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2006), 356 pp. Details
- Fenner, Frank and Curtis, David, The John Curtin School of Medical Research: the First Fifty Years, 1948-1998 (Gundaroo, New South Wales: Brolga Press, 2001), 565 (577) pp. Details
- Fenner, Frank and Fantini, B., Biological Control of Vertebrate Pests: the History of Myxomatosis, an Experiment in Evolution (Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 1999), 351 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Burnet, Frank Macfarlane; Fenner, Frank, 'The Production of Antibodies' in Milestones in Immunology: A Historical Exploration, Debra Jan Bibel, ed. (London: Science Tech, 1988), pp. 181-184. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Medicine and Medical Science' in The Australian Contribution to Britain: Papers of a Conference at the Royal Society, 7-8 June 1988, T. B. Millar, ed. (London: Australian Studies Centre, 1988), pp. 20-40. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898-1968), medical scientist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 14 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 188-190. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140202b.htm. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Gottschalk, Alfred (1894-1973), Medical Scientist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 14 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 302-303. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140341b.htm. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Fairley, Sir Neil Hamilton (1891-1966), Physician, Medical Scientist and Army Officer' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 14 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 128-131. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140139b.htm. Details
- Fenner, Frank; De Burgh, P.M., 'Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887-1972), Bacteriologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds, vol. 16 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 488-489. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160580b.htm. Details
Edited Books
- Fenner, Frank ed., The First Twenty-five Years; the Australian Academy of Science [1954-1979] (Canberra: The Academy, 1980), 286 pp. Details
- Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. Details
- Fenner, Frank ed., The first forty years (Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 1995), 503 pp. Details
- Fenner, Frank ed., The First Fifty Years (Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 2005), 549 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Anderson, Warwick, 'The Military Spur to Australian Medical Research', Health and History, 15 (1) (2013), 80-103. Details
- Boyden, Stephen, Blanden, Robert and Mims, Cedric, 'Frank John Fenner FAA, 21 December 1914 - 22 November 2010', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows: Royal Society of London, 59 (2013), 125-44. Details
- Boyden, Stephen, Blanden, Robert and Mims, Cedric, 'Frank John Fenner 1914-2010', Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (1) (2013), 109-33, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12022. Details
- Brett-Crowther, Michael, 'Frank Fenner, AC, CMG, MBE, FAA, FRS', International Journal of Environmental Studies, 68 (2011), 141-3. Details
- Fenner, F., 'Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 39-77. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710039. Details
- Fenner, F., 'Adventures with Pox Viruses of Vertebrates', FEMS Microbiology Review, 24 (2) (2000), 123-133. Details
- Fenner, F. J., 'Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 3 September 1899 - 31 August 1985, elected F.R.S. 1942', Biographical Memoirs Fellows of the Royal Society, 33 (1987), 101-62. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Scientific Societies in Australia. The Australian Academy of Science', The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Proceedings, 27 (July) (1960), 289-294. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Obituary: Howard Walter Florey: Baron of Adelaide and Marston', Australian Journal of Science, 31 (1) (1968), 37-39. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'The history of the John Curtin School of Medical Research: a centre for research and postgraduate education in the basic medical sciences', Medical Journal of Australia, 1971, v.2 (24 July) (1971), 177-86. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Smallpox, 'the most dreadful scourage of the human species'', Medical Journal of Australia (1984), 728-735. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Howard Florey', Microbiology Australia, 19 (3) (1998), 37-9. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'The Australian Academy of Science: the First 50 Years', Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 62 (2008), 321-30. Details
- Fenner, Frank and Harris, S.F., 'Herbert Cole Coombs 1906-1997', Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (1) (2000), 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0001310067. Details
- George, C. R. Robert and Rawlinson, William, 'The Global Eradication of Smallpox and the Work of Frank Fenner', Microbiology Australia, 35 (3) (2014), 165-8. Details
- Hodgkin, Philip D., 'Remembering Frank Fenner', Immunology and Cell Biology, 89 (2011), 497-8. Details
- Howie-Willis, Ian, 'Australian malariology during World War II (part 3 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology"', Journal of Military and Veteran's History, 25 (2) (2017), 46-68. Details
- Murphy, Frederick A., 'In Memoriam: Frank Fenner (1914-2011)', Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17 (2011), 759-62. Details
- Murphy, Frederick A., 'In Memoriam: Frank Fenner (1914-2011)', Archives of Virology, 156 (2011), 363-7. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Dayton, Leigh, 'Frank Fenner, who eradicated smallpox and ended rabbit plague, dead at 95', The Australian (2010). http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/the-man-who-killed-smallpox-dies-at-95-20101122-1845h.html. Details
- Smith, Bridie, 'The man who killed smallpox dies at 95', The Age (2010). http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/the-man-who-killed-smallpox-dies-at-95-20101122-1845h.html. Details
Resources
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/36918097. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q714609. Details
- CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B883, SX4845', B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6245550. Details
- 'Fenner, Frank (19141221-20101122)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-468266. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Fenner, Frank John - Ms 143', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms143.html. Details
- 'Frank Fenner - helped eradicate smallpox', in The 1997 Australian Science Festival, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/other/asf_scientists.htm#frank. Details
- 'Frank Fenner, Enemy of Rabbite, Dies', in ABC Rural News, 22 November 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201011/s3073081.htm. Details
- Blythe, Max, 'Interview with Professor Frank Fenner', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 13 September 1993, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/f/ff.html. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Interview with Professor Jacques Miller', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 27 October 1999, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/m/jm.html. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Interview with Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 23 September 1999, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/t/htb.html. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Interview with Professor Gordon Ada', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 13 September 1993, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/a/ga.html. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Interview with Professor Stephen Boyden', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2003, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/b/sb.html. Details
Reviews
- Fenner, Frank (ed.), The First Fifty Years (2005)
Mulvaney, John, Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (2), (2005), 249-251. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05012. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_f.html. Details
- Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science, 2022, https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/macfarlane-burnet-medal-and-lecture. Details
- Walsh, A.; and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910031. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 18 October 2022
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