Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller is mainly known by his seminal contributions to the understanding of the physiologic role of the thymus gland in the development and maturation of the immune system. He was born in Nice, France, and educated in Australia, where he attended Saint Aloysius' College in Sydney, before studying medicine at the University of Sydney School of Medicine. During his medical studies, Miller also achieved a B.S. in bacteriology, in 1953. After his medical residency at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, he was granted a Gaggin Fellowship to do research at the University College, London, United Kingdom, where he investigated mouse leukemia at the Chester Beatty Research Institute. Miller observed that many types of lymphocytic leukemia in mice, either induced by virus, radiation, chemical carcinogens, or spontaneous leukemia occurring in high-leukemic strain mice, always began in the thymus, and then spread. Other studies had...