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Peter Medawar

Peter Medawar

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33 H-Index
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Peter Medawar is a immunology specialist with an H-index of 33 at University College London (Member). Has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, Science. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.

Biography

Sir Peter Brian Medawar 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. For his scientific works, he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers"; Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known".

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Transplant ProcEBioMedicineImmunol Today

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