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- Peter_Medawar abstract "Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS (/ˈmɛdəwər/; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) 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. He was professor of zoology at 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\".".
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- Peter_Medawar birthDate "1915-02-28".
- Peter_Medawar birthName "Peter Brian Medawar".
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- Peter_Medawar deathDate "1987-10-02".
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- Peter_Medawar doctoralStudent Avrion_Mitchison.
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- Peter_Medawar field Immunology.
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