Person

McCrea, John Falding

Occupation
Virologist

Summary

John McCrea was a PhD student of Sir Macfarlane Burnet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research from 1945 to 1948. He subsequently became an associate professor of microbiology at Yale University.

Details

Educated University of Melbourne (BAgSc 1941, PhD 1948). Student of Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1945-48, Australian National University Scholar, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine , London 1948-51, Department of Microbiology, Yale University 1951-ca 1956, Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics, ca 1956-63, Department of Microbiology 1963-67. Guest professor, Microbiology School, University of Melbourne August-December 1966.

Published resources

Resources

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This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260