Peter Medawar
28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987
Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a British biologist regarded as the father of transplantation immunology. He shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on acquired immunological tolerance, which laid the scientific foundations for organ and tissue transplantation.
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Life events
Peter Brian Medawar was born in Rio de Janeiro to a Lebanese-born father and a British mother.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the zoologist John Young.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDuring World War II he studied skin grafting for burn victims, sparking his interest in transplantation and immune rejection.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWith colleagues he experimentally demonstrated that immunological tolerance could be acquired, confirming a theory proposed by Frank Macfarlane Burnet.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the 1960 Nobel Prize with Frank Macfarlane Burnet for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe served as director of the National Institute for Medical Research in London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe suffered a severe stroke that curtailed his laboratory work, after which he continued writing acclaimed popular science books.
Source: en.wikipedia.org