Fenner, Frank John (1914 - )

Chronology

1938	Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Adelaide
1940	DTM completed at the University of Sydney
1940 - 1946	Served in Egypt and New Guinea as an officer of the Australian Army Medical Corps
1942	Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Adelaide
1944	Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE, military)
1946 - 1948	Haley Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
1948 - 1949	Rockefeller Travelling Fellow
1949	David Syme Research Prize received from the University of Melbourne
1949 - 1967	Professor of Microbiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, in Canberra
1954 -	Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1958 -	Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1964 - 1965	President of the Australian Society for Microbiology
1967	Walter Burfitt Prize received from the Royal Society of New South Wales
1967 - 1973	Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research
1973 - 1979	Director of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University
1976	Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
1977	Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
1977 - 1980	Chairman of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication
1980	ANZAC Peace Prize received
1980	ANZAAS Medal received (Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science)
1981 - 1985	Chairman of the WHO Committee on Orthopoxvirus Infections
1983	Florey Lecture given at the Royal Society
1985	Burnet Lecture presented to the Australian Academy of Science
1988	Japan Prize received
1988	WHO Medal received
1989	Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
1994 -	Frank Fenner Medal established to honour the most outstanding PhD thesis submitted each year in the John Curtin School of Medical Research
1995	Copley Medal received from the Royal Society
1999	Senior Australian Achiever of the Year award received
2000	Albert Einstein World Award for Science received
2002	Clunies Ross Lifetime Contribution Award received

• Fenner, Ellen Margaret Bobbie (Bobbie) (1911 - 1995)

• 'Fenner, Frank John - Ms 143', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms143.txt. [ Details ]
• 'Frank Fenner - helped eradicate smallpox', in The 1997 Australian Science Festival, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/other/asf_scientists.htm#frank. [ Details ]
• Blythe, Max, Interview with Professor Frank Fenner, Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 13 September 1993, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/ff.htm. [ Details ]
• Fenner, Frank, Interview with Professor Jacques Miller, Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 27 October 1999, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/jm.htm. [ Details ]
• Fenner, Frank, Interview with Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 23 September 1999, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/htb.htm. [ Details ]
• Fenner, Frank, Interview with Professor Gordon Ada, Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 13 September 1993, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/notesga.htm. [ Details ]
• Fenner, Frank, Interview with Professor Stephen Boyden, Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2003, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/sb.htm. [ Details ]

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000403. [ Details ]