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Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal (born 4 June 1931) is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist..
Gustav Nossal
Australian research biologist (born 1931)
Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal (born 4 June 1931) is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist.
He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance.
Early life and education
Nossal's family was from Vienna, Austria. He was born four weeks prematurely in Bad Ischl while his mother was on holiday.
His family left their home town of Vienna for Australia in 1939 following Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria.
Sir Gustav Nossal was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
As his father's grandparents were Jewish, he was also considered Jewish and at risk of being sent to concentration camps. In an interview with Adam Spencer, Nossal noted that his father was not a professing Jew but of Jewish ethnicity as he had been baptised a Roman Catholic as a child.
Nossal remarked that his father "therefore thought that he would be somewhat protected from the Holocaust-type predicament. Of course, he hadn't properly read Mein Kampf. It was