The Seeds of Time: The Life of Sir Macfarlane Burnet

The Seeds of Time: The Life of Sir Macfarlane Burnet is the official biography of Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, the Australian Nobel Prize-winning scientist, written by lawyer and biographer Christopher Sexton, and published in 1991 by Oxford University Press and revised in 1999 as Burnet: A Life, for the centenary of Burnet's birth.

Sexton wrote the book over a period of five years from archival information, interviews with Burnet's former scientific colleagues, and, notably, a series of frank, revealing interviews with Burnet himself prior to his death in 1985. Widely acclaimed and short-listed for The Age Book of the Year 1991, the work illuminates the life of one of Australia's greatest scientists and most influential thinkers.^[1] The book contains detailed bibliographic notes and a full CV for Burnet.