Editing Gustav Nossal (section)

==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 1939 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. 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 there: if your four grandparents were Jewish, then you were Jewish."<ref>{{cite web|last=Spencer |first=Adam |url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2009/11/16/2740862.htm |title=The World in Sydney&nbsp;— Sir Gustav Nossal&nbsp;— ABC Sydney|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=2009-11-12 |access-date=2013-06-25}}</ref> He was baptised and remains a practising Roman Catholic.<ref name="USYDNossal">{{cite web|url = http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Nossal,_Sir_Gustav_Joseph_Victor |title = Nossal, Sir Gustav Joseph Victor&nbsp;— Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive |publisher = Sydney.edu.au |access-date = 23 June 2013}}</ref>

Nossal showed interest in medicine and wanted to become a doctor since the age of seven.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.findmypathway.com/blog/sir-gustav-nossal-immunologist-interview/|title=Sir Gustav Nossal in Forging the Path, A Find My Pathway Interview|date=30 October 2018|website=Find My Pathway}}</ref> When he first attended school in Australia, Nossal spoke no English<ref name="age_20080619">{{cite news
 | last = Cincotta | first = Liz
 | title = Passage to Australia
 | newspaper = The Age
 | location = Melbourne 
 | date = 19 June 2008
 | url = http://www.theage.com.au/national/passage-to-australia-20080618-2stt.html?page=-1
 | access-date = 1 March 2012 }}</ref>
but he graduated from [[St Aloysius' College (Sydney)|St Aloysius' College]] in 1947<ref name="gonz_20110304">{{cite news
 |last         = Middleton
 |first        = Chris
 |title        = The Principal
 |newspaper    = The Gonzagon (Weekly Newsletter of St Aloysius' College)
 |page         = 2
 |date         = 4 March 2011
 |url          = http://www.staloysius.com.au/newsletter/2011/2011_06.pdf
 |access-date  = 1 March 2012
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110309105311/http://www.staloysius.com.au/newsletter/2011/2011_06.pdf
 |archive-date = 9 March 2011
}}</ref>
as the [[Dux#Education|dux]] of the college.<ref name="Nossalhs">{{cite web|url=http://nossalhs.vic.edu.au/about-nossal/sir-gustav-nossal |title=Sir Gustav Nossal &#124; The Nossal High School |publisher=Nossalhs.vic.edu.au |date=4 June 1931 |access-date=23 June 2013}}</ref> In 1948, he entered the [[Sydney Medical School]], graduating later with [[first-class honours]] from the [[University of Sydney]]. At the age of 26, he left his job in Sydney and moved to [[Melbourne]] to work with [[Frank Macfarlane Burnet|Macfarlane Burnet]] in medical science at the [[Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research]] and gained his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree at the [[University of Melbourne]] in 1960.