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Person    | Male  Born 28/2/1915  Died 2/10/1987

Sir Peter Medawar

Categories: Medicine

Countries: Brazil

Sir Peter Medawar

OM, FRS, Nobel Laureate.  Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His pioneering wartime research on tissue grafting won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1960. Not a fan of psychoanalysis - in 1975 he called it "the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the 20th century". His autobiography is titled: Memoir of a Thinking Radish (1986). Died London. 

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Sir Peter Medawar

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Sir Peter Medawar plaque

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Sir Peter Medawar tree

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