Jacques Miller: A Life of Discovery

When Jacques Miller was thirty years old he solved a mystery that had confounded medicine for centuries: he discovered the function of the thymus, a human organ whose purpose had long remained unknown. His breakthrough transformed biology and laid the foundations for modern immunology.

Miller spent his childhood moving between France, Switzerland and wartime Shanghai before adopting a new home in Australia. Driven to medical research by his sister's early death from tuberculosis, his life wa...