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Peter Medawar

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Gender Male
Death37 years ago
Date of birth February 28,1915
Zodiac sign Pisces
Born Petropolis
State Of Rio De Janeiro
Brazil
Date of died October 2,1987
DiedLondon
United Kingdom
NationalityBrazilian
British
Children Caroline Medawar Garland
Job Physician
Biologist
Awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Copley Medal
Grandchildren Alex Garland
Education University of Oxford
Marlborough College
Magdalen College
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Date of Upd.
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Advice to a Young Scientist
The limits of science
Memoir of a thinking radish
The Art of the Soluble
Pluto's Republic
The strange case of the spotted mice and other classic essays on science
The uniqueness of the individual
Induction and intuition in scientific thought
The hope of progress
Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology
The threat and the glory
The life science
The future of man
Die Einmaligkeit des Individuums
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Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CH CBE FRS was a Brazilian-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. For his scientific works, he is regarded as the "father of transplantation".

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