Eradication of smallpox Control of Australia's rabbit plague
Spouse
Ellen Margaret Bobbie Roberts
Parent(s)
Albert Charles Fenner and Emma Louise "Peggy" Hirt
Frank John FennerAC CMG MBE FRS FAA (21 December 1914 – 22 November 2010) was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox,[2] and the attempted control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus.[3]
The Australian Academy of Science awards annually the prestigious Fenner Medal for distinguished research in biology by a scientist under 40 years of age.[4][5]
^Henderson, Donald A. (2011). "Frank Fenner (1914–2010) A guiding light of the campaign to eradicate smallpox". Nature. 469 (7328): 35. doi:10.1038/469035a. PMID 21209651.
^Frank F. Fenner, Donald A. Henderson, Isao Arita, Zdeněk Ježek, Ivan D. Ladnyi Smallpox and its Eradication World Health Organization Geneva, 1988
^Boyden, S.; Blanden, R.; Mims, C. (2013). "Frank John Fenner FAA. 21 December 1914 -- 22 November 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 59: 125–144. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0009. hdl:1885/65529. S2CID 71415413.
^"Australian Academy of Science – Fenner medal". Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
Frank John Fenner AC CMG MBE FRS FAA (21 December 1914 – 22 November 2010) was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology...
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