Gordon Leslie Ada (b. December 6 1922) is an Australian microbiologist best known for his long leadership of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University where Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel performed their Nobel winning research in his laboratory. Gordon Ada was born in 1922 in Sydney. He studied at the University of Sydney, graducating BSc in 1943, an MSc in 1946. Wikipedia
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Burnet later wrote -"What I can be certain about however, is the immense importance of the work on the cellular localisation of antigen led by Ada and Nossal in the 1962-5 period". jcsmr.anu.edu.au/about/hon_roll/ada.php
Gordon Leslie Ada was Professor of Microbiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University from 1968-88. Earlier he was at the National Institute of Medical Research, London 1946-48 and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institu www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000001b.htm
Professor Gordon Ada was interviewed in 1993 for the Interviews with Australian scientists series. By viewing the interviews in this series, or reading the transcripts and extracts, your students can begin to appreciate Australia's contribution to the gr www.science.org.au/scientists/notesga.htm
