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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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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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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Shuttle Challenger disaster. Great-niece of historian Philip Khuri Hitti. Peter Medawar, British 1960 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine. George Daniel, American...
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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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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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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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College. He received his DPhil at New College, Oxford with Nobelist Sir Peter Medawar. This was followed by a long career as Professor of Zoology at University...
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influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist Peter Medawar, and neuroscientist John Carew Eccles. The German jurist Reinhold Zippelius...
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Manchester University Press. pp. 1–17. ISBN 0719025419. —— (1988). Sir Peter Medawar O.M., C.H., C.B.E., F.R.S. 1915–1987. A Personal Memoir. Runnymede Trust...
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surrounded by the flowered graveyard in which the Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar and the Labour politician Denis Healey are buried. It is built in the...
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architects among others, but is often not read by people who cite it. Peter Medawar explains this as being because it clearly pioneered the use of mathematics...
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of his generation". Brazilian-British biologist and Nobel laureate Peter Medawar called Haldane "the cleverest man I ever knew". According to Theodosius...
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László Moholy-Nagy and Mies van der Rohe were inspired by the book. Peter Medawar, the 1960 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, called it "the finest work of...
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mathematician Terrence McKenna, ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author Peter Medawar, biologist, called by Richard Dawkins "the wittiest of all scientific...
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and some scientific and philosophical critics: (Dr Eliot Slater, Sir Peter Medawar and Sir Karl Popper)". The British Journal of Medical Psychology. 51...
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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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too rigid and simplistic. In a radio talk in 1964 the Nobel laureate Peter Medawar criticised this text structure for not giving a realistic representation...
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Lewontin, Alex Comfort, Jacob Bronowski, and more in-depth analyses by Peter Medawar, Robert K. Merton, and Andre Lwoff. Erwin Chargaff declined permission...
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first proposed in a 1952 paper on the evolutionary theory of ageing by Peter Medawar and developed further in a paper by George C. Williams in 1957 as an...
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Head of Biochemistry at the institute.In 1962, Nobel Prize winner Sir Peter Medawar became director and, consistent with his research interests, established...
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Philip Noel-Baker 1960 Donald A. Glaser Willard Libby Macfarlane Burnet; Peter Medawar Saint-John Perse Albert Lutuli 1961 Robert Hofstadter; Rudolf Mössbauer...
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later head of Epsom College Peter Godfrey (choral conductor) Former pupils include the Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar, Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman...
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the actress Peggy Ashcroft as well as the scientist J. D. Bernal and Peter Medawar resided. The road runs between the A 502 (Rosslyn Hill) in the southwest...
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has some sort of life. In regard to Teilhard's The Phenomenon of Man, Peter Medawar wrote, "Teilhard's radial, spiritual, or psychic energy may be equated...
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Elias James Corey and Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine Peter Medawar. Other notables include legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas...
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after Sir Peter Medawar, a Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s. In The Art of the Soluble, Medawar suggested...
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