
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rood, Sarah 
A1  - Sheedy, Katherine 
T1  - Frank Fenner
JF  - Microbiology Australia
JO  - Microbiol. Aust.
Y1  - 2009
VL  - 30
IS  - 3
SP  - 41
EP  - 41
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MA09S41 
N2  - Frank John Fenner was born in Ballarat in 1914 and moved to Adelaide as a young child. He completed his undergraduate studies in medicine (1938) at the University of Adelaide, before obtaining a Diploma of Tropical Medicine (University of Sydney, 1940) and later a Doctor of Medicine (University of Adelaide, 1942). During World War II, Fenner served in the Australian Army Medical Corps, as a field ambulance medical officer, pathologist and malariologist. For his work in combating malaria in Papua New Guinea, Fenner received the award Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1944. 
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