Jacques Miller interviewed by Peter Pockley [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3048099
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Miller, Jacques, 1931-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2003
- 3 digital audio tapes (101 min.)
- Summary:
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Emeritus Professor Miller, a medical research academic, discusses his family background, his father's decision to change the surname; his father's work in China; circumstances that brought him to Australia in 1941; his schooling in Sydney; Gustav Nossal; his studies at the University of Sydney, being interested in research rather than clinical practice; his residency at Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney; his marriage (1956); being awarded a Gaggin Fellowship to do medical research in London (1958); completing his PhD at the Chester Beatty Research Institute, London (1960); Ludwig Gross; his doctorate on leukaemia; Alexander Haddow; new findings arising from his PhD research; Peter Medawar.
Miller speaks about the importance of the thymus in immunology; the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship, U.S.A. (1963/1964); the acceptance of his findings about the thymus; his return to Australia in 1966; his research work at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne; Bede Morris, Professor of Immunology, Australian National University); experimental mice; T and B cells; Rolf Zinkernagel and Peter Doherty (research scientists); his most significant honours; his retirement and post-retirement activities; challenges awaiting immunology; Gurdon's work with oocytes (frog eggs); commercialisation of research; the nature and importance of basic research; family situation and personal cultural tastes; current scientific research project; failures in scientific research; molecular biology; his attitude to experiments on animals; current public perceptions of Science.
- Biography/History:
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Emeritus Professor Jacques Miller was admitted into the Order of Australia as a Companion in 2003 and also received the Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Nov. 13, 2003 at Melbourne, Vic.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218641292
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (9 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 115 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Immunologists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pockley, Peter, 1935-2013, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Until 2073 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2003
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