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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • facts. Not in Our Genes received positive reviews from the biologist Peter Medawar in Nature, the geneticist Alan Emery in Trends in Neurosciences, and...
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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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    given to rabbits together with antigens. Following the work done by Sir Peter Medawar and Gertrude Elion in discovering the immunological basis of rejection...
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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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    footballer – playing for FC Basle in Switzerland (Assyrian Christian). Peter Medawar, of Lebanese descent (Maronite Christian); was awarded the 1960 Nobel...
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  • Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Literature, 1961 Peter Brian Medawar*, Physiology or Medicine, 1960 Elias Canetti*, Literature, 1981 Geoffrey...
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  • artist Peter McReynolds, Northern Irish politician Peter Medawar (1915–1987), British biologist and Nobel laureate Peter Morris, various people Peter Musñgi...
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  • Retrieved 14 December 2012. "Sir Peter Medawar". Birmingham University. Retrieved 14 December 2012. "Peter Medawar - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. The...
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  • Dick Crockett, American actor, stunt performer (d. 1979) February 28 Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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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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  • evolution... is a story of waste, makeshift, compromise and blunder. — Peter Medawar, The Future of Man Since the phenotype as a whole is the target of selection...
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     Bangladesh 1984 Yves Coppens Igor Petryanov [ru]  France  Soviet Union 1985 Peter Medawar  United Kingdom 1986 Nicolai G. Basov David Suzuki  Soviet Union  Canada...
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