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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
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Howard Florey
1898 – 1968Turned penicillin from curiosity into mass-manufactured medicine.
Australia·MedicineNobel
Macfarlane Burnet
1899 – 1985Acquired immune tolerance, the basis of transplantation.
Australia·Medicine · BiologyNobel
Elizabeth Blackburn
b. 1948Discovered telomerase, central to ageing and cancer research.
Australia·Medicine · BiologyNobel
Barry Marshall
b. 1951Drank the bacterium to prove ulcers are infectious, not stress.
Australia·MedicineNobel