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Peter Medawar

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Noun1.Peter 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 - British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian Medawar
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This phenomenon, called immunologic tolerance, was first described in experimental animal models in 1953 by Sir Peter Medawar, a Noble Laureate of Lebanese origin.
AUB names new vice president of medical affairs by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
Maiden, Department of Zoology, The Peter Medawar Bldg, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK; email: martin.
Extended sequence typing of Campylobacter spp., United Kingdom by Dingle, Kate E.; McCarthy, Noel D.; Cody, Alison J.; Peto, Tim E.A.; Maiden, Martin C.J. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
CONNOISSEURS OF HOMICIDAL book reviews have long treasured the virtuosic evisceration that British immunologist Sir Peter Medawar performed in 1950 on Teilhard de Chardin, that once fashionable Gallic mountebank.
Court historian: Andrew Roberts, the Anglosphere's greatest modern ... by Stove, R.J. / The American Conservative
 
 
 
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