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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  4. 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 ...

  5. Mar 26, 2024 · 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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  6. 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 ...

  7. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960 was awarded jointly to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Brian Medawar "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024.

  8. Mar 3, 2015 · For his role in this work, Peter Medawar was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1960. Later life. Peter Medawar was struck down by a stroke while delivering a speech in Exeter Cathedral in 1969, but he continued to write through the multiple strokes he suffered until his death in 1987. He made the self-portrait below while ...

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