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Sir Peter Medawar è stato un biologo e zoologo britannico, premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1960, insieme all'australiano Frank Macfarlane Burnet, per i suoi lavori su come il sistema immunitario rigetta gli organi trapiantati.
Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CH CBE FRS (/ ˈ m ɛ d ə w ər /; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants.
Biographical. Peter Brian Medawar was born on February 28, 1915, in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of a business man who is a naturalized British subject, born in the Lebanon. Medawar was educated at Marlborough College, England, where he went in 1928.
Peter Brian Medawar. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960. Born: 28 February 1915, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Died: 2 October 1987, London, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University College, London, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance” Prize share: 1/2. Work.
Medawar continued working in Oxford as the second world war began, dramatically changing the direction of his research. During the Battle of Britain, the now-married Peter Medawar and his wife heard an aeroplane flying low over their Oxford garden, followed by an almighty crash.
Sir Peter B. Medawar was a Brazilian-born British zoologist who received, with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1960 for developing and proving the theory of acquired immunological tolerance, a model that paved the way for successful organ and tissue.
Sir Peter Medawar è stato un biologo e zoologo britannico, premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1960, insieme all'australiano Frank Macfarlane Burnet, per i suoi lavori su come il sistema immunitario rigetta gli organi trapiantati.
