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Howard Florey

1898 – 1968

Turned penicillin from curiosity into mass-manufactured medicine.

Australia·MedicineNobel

Macfarlane Burnet

1899 – 1985

Acquired immune tolerance, the basis of transplantation.

Australia·Medicine · BiologyNobel

Elizabeth Blackburn

b. 1948

Discovered telomerase, central to ageing and cancer research.

Australia·Medicine · BiologyNobel

Barry Marshall

b. 1951

Drank the bacterium to prove ulcers are infectious, not stress.

Australia·MedicineNobel