| Authorised form of name | Medawar; Sir; Peter Brian (1915 - 1987) |
| Dates | 1915 - 1987 |
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro |
| Date of birth | 28/02/1915 |
| Date of death | 02/10/1987 |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1960
Honours:
CBE 1958; Kt 1965; CH 1972; OM 1981 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1949 |
| Age at election | 34 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1959; Copley Medal 1969; Faraday 1987
Lectures:
Croonian 1958; Tercentenary 1960 |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1990 vol 35 pp 281-301, plate, by N A Mitchison
References:
Patricia H Clarke, review of Jean Medawar, A Very Decided Preference in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 198-200
Gillian Beer, 'Translation or Transformation? The Relations of Literature and Science' in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 81-99
Notes:
Birthplace from The Times, 28/02/2001
N Calver and M Parker 'The logic of scientific unity? Medawar, the Royal Society and the Rothschild Controversy.' in Notes and Records, Vol 70, Issue 1, March 2016 pp 83-100
N Calver ' Sir Peter Medawar: science, creativity and the popularization of KArl Popper.' In Notes and Records, vol 672013, pp 301-314 |
| Royal Society code | NA7796 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/WS/3469 | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian | |
| GLB/19/1/8 | Peter Medawar to Brown | 27 January 1960 |
| EC/1949/15 | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/18/9 | P B Medawar to the Royal Society Club | 20 February 1962 |
| IM/GA/AR/6989 | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian | nd |
| RR/67/285 | Referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The growth, growth energy, and ageing of the chicken’s heart' by Peter Brian Medawar | July 1940 |
| RR/68/395 | Referee's report by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, on a paper 'The shape of the human being as a function of time' by Peter Brian Medawar | 28 June 1943 |
| RR/68/396 | Referee's report by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, on a paper 'The shape of the human being as a function of time' by Peter Brian Medawar | 28 September 1943 |
| RR/68/394 | Referee's report by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, on a paper 'The shape of the human being as a function of time' by Peter Brian Medawar | [1943] |
| IM/GA/WS/3469/A | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/3469/D | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian | nd |
| IM/GA/WRS/8627 | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian | nd |
| RR/72/278 | Referee's report by Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'The transplantation of normal tissues: with special reference to auto- and homotransplants of thyroid and spleen in the anterior chamber of the eye, and subcutaneously, in guinea-pigs' by Michael Francis Addison Woodruff and Hazel G Woodruff | 1949 |
| CMB/281/44 | Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings | 1962 |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8365 | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian | 1984 |
| RR/72/279 | Letter from Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'The transplantation of normal tissues: with special reference to auto- and homotransplants of thyroid and spleen in the anterior chamber of the eye, and subcutaneously, in guinea-pigs' by Michael Francis Addison Woodruff and Hazel G Woodruff to Edward James Salisbury | 2 January 1950 |
| IM/003046 | Medawar, Sir Peter Brian | nd |
| RR/68/397 | Letter from Lancelot Thomas Hogben, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The shape of the human being as a function of time' by Peter Brian Medawar | 21 May 1943 |