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Australia: the essential lives

5 figures from Australia, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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Turned penicillin from curiosity into mass-manufactured medicine.

Acquired immune tolerance, the basis of transplantation.

Voss and the interior epic of the Australian continent.

Discovered telomerase, central to ageing and cancer research.

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