Medawar's family donated his Nobel Prize medal to the University of Oxford
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Peter Medawar
Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-born biologist and writer of Lebanese-British descent who, from a succession of research and teaching posts, and senior U.K. biomedical leadership positions, contributed seminal discoveries in immunology, including one honoured by a Nobel Prize to him and Australian Mac Burnet in 1960. Medawar's works on the discovery of acquired immune tolerance, and on gra…
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science · Brazilian-British biologist (1915–1987) · physician · immunologist · zoologist · autobiographer · professor · physiologist · researcher · anatomist · also Peter Medawar, P.B. Medawar, P. B. Medawar, Sir Peter Medawar, Sir Peter Brian Medawar, Medawar
Born 28 February 1915 · Died 2 October 1987 · Q214209
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2023· 1 entry
The Scientist: People: Transplant Researchers Miller, Gowans Receive First Peter Medawar Prize
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2011· 2 entries
BBC: Peter Medawar - The Future of Man
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The Guardian: Pluto's Republic by Peter Medawar – review
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1995· 1 entry
("'Gramophone', Die Meistersinger and immunology", by John E
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1987· 3 entries
Died 1987-10-02.
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Awarded Michael Faraday Prize (1987).
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Died in the Royal Free Hospital, London
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1986· 1 entry
In a subject relating to the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Kalinga Prize (1985).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (1981).
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1971· 1 entry
And elected foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959, the American Philosophical Society in 1961, and the US National Academy of Sciences in 1965
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1969· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1969).
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Medawar suffered a stroke when reading the lesson at Exeter Cathedral, a duty which falls on every new President of the British Association
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
And received the Royal Medal in 1959, and the Copley Medal in 1969 both from the Royal Society
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1962· 1 entry
Was appointed director of the National Institute for Medical Research
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960).
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With Burnet for their work in tissue grafting which is the basis of organ transplants, and their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance
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1959· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1959).
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Medawar was invited by the BBC to present the broadcaster's annual Reith Lectures—following in the footsteps of his colleague, J
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1958· 2 entries
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1958).
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Knighted him in 1965, and appointed him to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1972, and Order of Merit in 1981
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1953· 1 entry
Followed by a series of papers, and a comprehensive description in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B in 1956, giving the name "actively acquired tolerance"
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1951· 1 entry
As Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
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1949· 1 entry
When Australian biologist Frank Macfarlane Burnet, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, advanced the hypothesis that during embryonic life and immediately after birth, cells gradually
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1947· 2 entries
Moved to the University of Birmingham, taking along with him his PhD student Leslie Brent and postdoctoral fellow Rupert Billingham
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Became Mason Professor of Zoology at the University of Birmingham and worked there until 1951
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1942· 1 entry
Senior research fellow of St John's College, Oxford, in 1944, and a university demonstrator in zoology and comparative anatomy, also in 1944
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1941· 2 entries
But because of the prohibitive cost of supplication (the process by which the degree is officially conferred), he spent the money on his urgent appendicectomy instead
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Did not receive the degree as he could not afford the requisite £25, to which he commented:I'm an impostor
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1938· 1 entry
Became Fellow of Magdalen through an examination, the position he held until 1944
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1932· 1 entry
Went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree in zoology in 1935
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1928· 1 entry
Before university, Medawar went to the U
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1918· 1 entry
And he lived there for the rest of his life
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1915· 1 entry
Born 1915-02-28.
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