What is Gustav Nossal?
[[File:Gustav Nossal (cropped).jpg|thumb|270px|Nossal in April 2007]] [[Sir]] '''Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal''' {{Small|[[Order of Australia|AC]] [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] FRS}} (born 4 June 1931) is an [[Austria]]n-born [[Australia]]n [[research]] [[biologist]]. He is famous for his work in the fields of [[antibody]] formation and [[Immunology|immunological]] tolerance. ==Life and career== Nossal was born in [[Bad Ischl]]. He first grew up in the Austrian [[capital city]] of [[Vienna]]. After the [[Anschluss]] ([[Nazi Germany]]'s [[annexation]] of Austria), he and his family moved to Australia. This was because, although not of [[Judaism|Jewish faith]], his father's grandparents were [[Jewish]]. This meant that Nossal was at risk of being sent to [[concentration camp]]s due his Jewish background.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/passage-to-australia-20080618-2stt.html?page=-1|title=Passage to Australia|date=19 June 2008|work=[[The Age]]|access-date=5 April 2019|author=Cincotta, Liz}}</ref> Nossal was [[baptised]], like his father, and is a [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name=sydney>{{Cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Nossal,_Sir_Gustav_Joseph_Victor|title=Nossal, Sir Gustav Joseph Victor|work=Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive|publisher=[[University of Sydney]]|author=Mellor, Lise|date=2008|access-date=5 April 2019|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412223518/http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Nossal,_Sir_Gustav_Joseph_Victor|url-status=dead}}</ref> He studied at the [[University of Sydney]]. Nossal has written five books and 530 scientific [[article]]s on immunology and similar fields. From 1959 to 1961, he was the assistant [[professor]] of [[genetics]] at Stanford University. He began serving as [[director]] of the [[Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research]] from 1965. At the same time, he was Professor of Medical Biology at the [[University of Melbourne]]. He retired