Medawar, Sir Peter Brian
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915–87) British immunologist. Born in Brazil and educated at Oxford, he held posts in zoology there and at Birmgingham and London. He turned to medical biology and studied rejection in tissue grafts, experimenting with mouse embryos and demonstrating the phenomenon of acquired immunological
tolerance. For this work he shared the 1960 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Sir Macfarlane
Burnet.
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Sir Peter Medawar, 72, Dies; Won Nobel Prize in Medicine
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/4/1987; ; 700+ words
; Sir Peter Medawar, 72, the British immunologist and zoologist...liver and heart transplants. Peter Brian Medawar was born in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 28...the scientist Jean Shinglewood Taylor Medawar, whom he married in 1937, and their...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/28/1995; 343 words
; ...author of books for boys, 1814; Sir John Tenniel, artist and illustrator...Santley, bass-baritone, 1834; Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, surgeon...Minelli, film director, 1913; Sir Peter Brian Medawar, immunologist, 1915.
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A century of science in the Pinacate.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Southwest; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists, and even a few mystics. --SIR PETER BRIAN MEDAWAR, The Art of the Soluble Lured by a little-known landscape, they came to explore the Pinacate and Gran Desierto...
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Rising organ donations help save lives
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 6/21/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sir Peter Brian Medawar, a 1960 Nobel Prize co-winner who paved the way for organ transplants, once said that organ transplantation was bound to be...
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Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/7/2002; 700+ words
; ...United Kingdom; Sir Paul M. Nurse, United...States. 1996 -- Peter C. Doherty, Austria...States. 1988 -- Sir James W. Black...States. 1970 -- Sir Bernard Katz, United...Australia; Peter Brian Medawar, United Kingdom...
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NOBEL PRIZES IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/7/2002; 700+ words
; ...United Kingdom; Sir Paul M. Nurse, United...States. 1996 -- Peter C. Doherty, Austria...States. 1988 -- Sir James W. Black...States. 1970 -- Sir Bernard Katz, United...Australia; Peter Brian Medawar, United Kingdom...
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LIST OF NOBEL WINNERS FOR MEDICINE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...United States; Peter Mansfield, United...States. 1988 -- Sir James W. Black...States. 1970 -- Sir Bernard Katz, United...Germany. 1963 -- Sir John Carew Eccles...Australia; Peter Brian Medawar, United Kingdom...
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Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Peter Brian Medawar , 1915-87, British zoologist, b...another. Working on a theory proposed by Sir Macfarlane Burnet , he proved it was possible...tendency to reject foreign tissue or organs. Medawar was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physiology...
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Medawar, Sir Peter Brian
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915–87) British zoologist...Prize in physiology or medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet for their discovery of acquired immune tolerance. Medawar confirmed that if foreign tissue is introduced...
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Peter Brian Medawar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Peter Brian Medawar The British zoologist...the 1970s and 1980s, Medawar produced several books...to a Young Scientist, Medawar wrote that scientists...Reading For sketches of Medawar's life and work see Sir Peter Medawar (1915...
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