List of Famous people with last name Mackaness

George B. Mackaness

First Name George
Last Name Mackaness
Born on August 20, 1922
Died on March 4, 2007 (aged 84)

George Bellamy Mackaness was an Australian professor of microbiology, immunologist, writer and administrator, who researched and described the life history of the macrophage. He showed that by infecting mice with intracellular bacteria, macrophages could be activated to attack other bacteria, triggering further research on "macrophage activation", a term he has come to be associated with.

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