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Physiology or Medicine (216) |
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1960 (6) |
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Rio de Janeiro (1) |
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Peter (10) |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) |
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American Philosophical Society (126) |
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Royal Society (294) |
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45. Other Awards |
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (13) |
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Copley Medal (60) |
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Croonian Lecture (32) |
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Kalinga Prize (7) |
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Michael Faraday Prize (3) |
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Royal Medal (50) |
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| complete name: |
Peter Brian Medawar |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1960 |
| together with: |
Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
| rational: |
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." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Peter |
| family name: |
Medawar |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
professor |
| occupation: |
zoologist |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
immunologist |
| occupation: |
autobiographer |
| field of work: |
zoology |
| work location: |
University College London, UCL Main Building, London, United Kingdom |
| description: |
Peter Brian Medawar was a British biologist born in Brazil, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his works in immunology he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit in real life and popular writings. Famous zoologists such as Richard Dawkins, referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers", and Stephen Jay Gould, as "the cleverest man I have ever known". Medawar was the younger son of a Lebanese father and a British mother, and was a naturalised British citizen. He studied at Marlborough College and Magdalen College, Oxford and was professor of zoology at the University of Birmingham and University College London. Until he was partially disabled by a cerebral infarction, he was Director of the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill. With his doctoral student Leslie Brent and postdoctoral fellow Rupert E. Billingham, he demonstrated the principle of acquired immunological tolerance (the phenomenon of unresponsiveness of the immune system to certain molecules), which was theoretically predicted by Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet. This became the foundation of tissue and organ transplantation. He and Burnett shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance". |
| pronunciation: |
(/ˈmɛdəwər/) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1960/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1915 |
| date death: |
1987 |
| usual name: |
Peter Medawar |
