biography
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Medawar, Sir Peter (Brian)
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pronunciation:
[medawah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–87)
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| biography:
| Zoologist and one of the world's leading immunologists, born in Rio de Janeiro, SE Brazil. He studied zoology at Oxford, was appointed professor of zoology at Birmingham University (1947–51) and professor of comparative anatomy at University College London (1951–62), where he pioneered experiments in the prevention of rejection in transplant operations. He was director of the National Institute for Medical Research from 1962. In 1960 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for researches on immunological tolerance in relation to skin and organ grafting. He was also well known for his writing on scientific method, as in The Art of the Soluble (1967). He was knighted in 1965. |
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