Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CH CBE FRS (/ˈmɛdəwər/; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection...
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Planning Association, and wife of the British Nobel laureate Sir Peter Brian Medawar. Medawar was born in London, England, the daughter of Katherine Leslie...
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (section Peter Medawar)
to fit the crime.” In 1961, British immunologist and Nobel laureate Peter Medawar wrote a scornful review of The Phenomenon of Man for the journal Mind:...
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Selection shadow (section Medawar's Test Tube model)
J. B. S. Haldane and Peter Medawar in the 1940s, with Medawar creating the first graphical model. The model developed by Medawar states that due to the...
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banker Mardi Oakley Medawar, American novelist of Cherokee descent Peter Medawar (1915–1987), Nobel Prize-winning British biologist Medawar Lecture, a former...
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Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English author, screenwriter, and director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996)....
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in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for the development of penicillin. Peter Medawar read for a BA in zoology at Magdalen, receiving a first, and later for...
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Institution at Baabda Palace. Famous scientists of Lebanese descent include: Peter Medawar (Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine), Elias Corey (Nobel Prize in...
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proposed by Peter Medawar in 1952 as an evolutionary explanation for biological aging and the associated decline in fitness that accompanies it. Medawar used...
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working in 1953, before the University of Birmingham. In 1947, Sir Peter Medawar was appointed Mason Professor of Zoology at the university. His work...
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