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    Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CH CBE FRS (/ˈmɛdəwər/; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a Brazilian-British biologist and writer, whose works on graft...
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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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  • 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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    proposed by Peter Medawar in 1952 as an evolutionary explanation for biological aging and the associated decline in fitness that accompanies it. Medawar used...
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    J. B. S. Haldane and Peter Medawar in the 1940s, with Medawar creating the first graphical model. The model developed by Medawar states that due to the...
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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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  • mathematician Terrence McKenna, ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author Peter Medawar, biologist, called by Richard Dawkins "the wittiest of all scientific...
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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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