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Peter Medawar. Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CH CBE FRS ( / ˈmɛdəwər /; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) [1] was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants.
Biographical. Peter Brian Medawar was born on February 28, 1915, in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of a business man who is a naturalized British subject, born in the Lebanon. Medawar was educated at Marlborough College, England, where he went in 1928. Leaving this College in 1932, he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, to study zoology under ...
Sir Peter B. Medawar (born Feb. 28, 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—died Oct. 2, 1987, London, Eng.) was a Brazilian-born British zoologist who received, with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1960 for developing and proving the theory of acquired immunological tolerance, a model that paved the way for successful organ and tissue transplantation.
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Peter Brian Medawar. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960. Born: 28 February 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Died: 2 October 1987, London, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance”. Prize share: 1/2.
Brief Bio. Peter Brian Medawar was born on February 28, 1915, in Rio de Janeiro. His father was a businessman of Lebanese descent who was a naturalized British subject, and his mother was English. Immediately after the conclusion of the First World War in 1918, the family moved to England where Medawar spent his childhood.
The 1960 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was awarded to Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987) and Frank MacFarlane Burnet (1899-1985) for the demonstration of acquired immunologic tolerance. They showed that specific defenses of an organism against a particular antigen could be neutralized so that a homograft could be accepted. This neutralization could be accomplished by exposing the antigen ...
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Learn how Peter Medawar, a zoology graduate and a former student of Howard Florey, made the first discoveries that led to his Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1960. His research on tissue transplantation and immune system opened the door to organ transplantation and won him acclaim as a science communicator.
