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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Bible. Tobia Aun, archbishop, played role in 1860 Lebanon conflict. Peter Medawar, 1960 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine. Charles Elachi, Director of NASA...
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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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    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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    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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    influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist Peter Medawar, and neuroscientist John Carew Eccles. The German jurist Reinhold Zippelius...
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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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    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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    named after Peter Medawar, a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine or Physiology. Two medals are awarded every year. List of medicine awards "Medawar Medal – British...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    hardline than Richard Dawkins", and of deliberately choosing to ignore Peter Medawar's famous adage that "Science is the art of the soluble". Atkins married...
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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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  • Laudan John Lennox Isaac Levi Peter Lipton Helen Longino Elisabeth Lloyd Tim Maudlin Deborah Mayo Ernan McMullin Peter Medawar Sandra Mitchell John E. Murdoch...
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  • being a Brazilian citizen. One Nobel Prize recipient, the biologist Peter Medawar (who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Australian...
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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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