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
Sir Peter Medawar, 1915 - 1987, pioneer of transplantation immunology, lived ...
Sir Peter Medawar tree
The plaque is in front of a tree stump, so that accounts for the "lost" tree ...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Evelina Hospital for Sick Children
The Evelina Children's Hospital was founded by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and named for his wife, who had died aged 27 with her child in labour in 1866. It was planned by Dr Arthur Farre in a pu...
2 memorials
Downham Health Leisure Centre
A community centre in the Borough of Lewisham, It contains a large swimming pool, gym, library and creche.
1 memorial
Hannah Billig
Doctor. Born at 41 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Qualified as a doctor in 1925, she set up her first clinic in the east end of London in 1935. During WW2Â she was the doctor in charge of air raid sh...
Person, Community / Clubs, Medicine, India, Israel/Palestine
1 memorial
Richard Bright
A physician specialising in kidney problems, he was credited with the discovery of Bright's Disease (now called Glomerulonephritis or Nephritis) through his research on patients who exhibited drops...
1 memorial
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