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Australian research biologist (born )

Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal (born 4 June ) is an Austrian-born Australian research biologist.

He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance.

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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 following Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria.

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.

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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 all spelt out