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Medawar

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Med·a·war  (md-wr), Sir Peter Brian 1915-1987.
Brazilian-born British biologist. He shared a 1960 Nobel Prize for his work on acquired immunological tolerance.
Medawar [ˈmɛdəwə]
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(Biographies / Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915-1987) M, English, SCIENCE: zoologist) Sir Peter Brian. 1915-87, English zoologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1960) with Sir Macfarlane Burnet for work on immunology
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Noun1.Medawar - British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)Medawar - British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)
Peter Medawar, Sir Peter Brian Medawar
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