Diana E Manuel, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: May 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002517
1915–1987 Brazilian-born British biologist who furthered the science of immunology and who was awarded the Nobel Prize for work on acquired immunological tolerance and its importance to tissue transplantation.
Keywords: immunology; immunological tolerance; transplantation; tissue rejection; Burnet McFarlane
| Further Reading | |
| book LeGros Clark WE and Medawar PB (eds) (1945) Essays on Growth and Form, presented to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Oxford: Clarendon Press. | |
| book Medawar PB (1951) An Unsolved Problem of Biology. An Inaugural Lecture delivered at University College London. London: HK Lewis. | |
| book Medawar PB (1957) The Uniqueness of the Individual. London: Methuen. | |
| book Lance EM, Medawar PB and Simpson E (eds) (1977) An Introduction to Immunology. London: Wildwood House. | |
| book Medawar PB (1979) Advice to a Young Scientist. London: Harper and Row. | |
| book Medawar PB (1982) Pluto's Republic: incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Medawar PB (1984) The Limits of Science. New York: Harper and Row. | |
| book Medawar PB (1986) Memoir of a Thinking Radish. An Autobiography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Mitchison NA (1990) "Peter Brian Medawar 28 February 1915–2 October 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 35, pp. 281–301. London: The Royal Society. | |
Copyright © 2000-2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., or related companies. All rights reserved.
