Immunologist, born in Bad Ischl, C Austria. He studied at the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and was appointed research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (1957), deputy director (1961), and director (1965. He was also professor of medical biology at Melbourne University. In 1978 he gave the ABC's Boyer Lecture, entitled Nature's Defences. His discovery of the one cellone antibody rule is crucial to modern work in immunology.
Professor Sir Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (born June 4, 1931) is a distinguished Australian research biologist.
In 1977 he was knighted for his ground-breaking work in immunology and in 1989 was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
Gustav Nossal was born four weeks early in Bad Ischl, in Austria, while his mother was on holiday. Because his father was Jewish, the Nossal family left their home town of Vienna for Australia when he was eight years old. At the age of 26, he left his job in Sydney and came to Melbourne to work with Macfarlane Burnet in Medical Science.
In 1965, at the age of 35, Nossal became director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, a position that he kept until 1996.
He was also co-chair of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
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