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.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.01913595199585s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.0098321437835693s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.0097908973693848s
router_page: 1x 0.0086419582366943s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0073549747467041s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.005169153213501s
qids: 2x 0.0037639141082764s
headline: 2x 0.0026390552520752s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0023469924926758s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.002312183380127s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00027799606323242s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.0002288818359375s
head-facts: 1x 0.00020909309387207s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.5974044799805E-5s
related: 1x 3.0994415283203E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 0s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-06-03 12:47:06)  -----