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Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CH CBE FRS (/ ˈ m ɛ d ə w ər /; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) 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.
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Sir Peter B. Medawar 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.
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May 18, 2018 · Sir Peter Medawar is best remembered for developing the theory of acquired immunological tolerance, thus laying the foundation for successful organ and tissue transplantation. For this work he received, along with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1960.
Peter Medawar was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Sir Macfarlane Burnet (AAI '61) for their "discovery of acquired immunological tolerance." Medawar provided experimental evidence that confirmed Burnet's theory of immunological tolerance, which hypothesized that the concept of "self" was defined by the immune ...
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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.
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