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Authorised form of nameMedawar; Sir; Peter Brian (1915 - 1987)
Dates1915 - 1987
Place of birthRio de Janeiro
Date of birth28/02/1915
Date of death02/10/1987
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1960
Honours:
CBE 1958; Kt 1965; CH 1972; OM 1981
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1949
Age at election34
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1959; Copley Medal 1969; Faraday 1987
Lectures:
Croonian 1958; Tercentenary 1960
Source 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
CodeNA7796
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/GA/WS/3469Medawar, Sir Peter Brian
GLB/19/1/8Peter Medawar to Brown27 January 1960
EC/1949/15Medawar, Sir Peter Brian: certificate of election to the Royal Society
GLB/18/9P B Medawar to the Royal Society Club20 February 1962
IM/GA/AR/6989Medawar, Sir Peter Briannd
RR/67/285Referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The growth, growth energy, and ageing of the chicken’s heart' by Peter Brian MedawarJuly 1940
RR/68/395Referee's report by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, on a paper 'The shape of the human being as a function of time' by Peter Brian Medawar28 June 1943
RR/68/396Referee's report by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, on a paper 'The shape of the human being as a function of time' by Peter Brian Medawar28 September 1943
RR/68/394Referee'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/AMedawar, Sir Peter Briannd
IM/GA/WS/3469/DMedawar, Sir Peter Briannd
IM/GA/WRS/8627Medawar, Sir Peter Briannd
RR/72/278Referee'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/281/44Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings1962
IM/GA/SGRS/8365Medawar, Sir Peter Brian1984
RR/72/279Letter 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 Salisbury2 January 1950
IM/003046Medawar, Sir Peter Briannd
RR/68/397Letter 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 Medawar21 May 1943
RR/80/22Referee's report by Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'Passive transfer of transplantation immunity' by Nicholas Avrion Mitchison24 April 1953
RR/76/88Referee's report by Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'A study of plasma cell and lymphocyte reaction in rabbit tissue homografts' by D A Darcy8 January 1952
RR/76/79Letter from Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'Morality among voles (microtus agreatis) at Lake Vyrnwy, Montgomeryshire in 1936-9' by D Chitty, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society19 January 1952
RR/80/29Referee's report by Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'Foetal regression in rabbits: experimental studies of histolysis and phagocytosis' by Megan Henderson9 June 1953
RR/78/21Referee's report by Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'Nuclear components of dividing cells' by P M B Walker and Helen B Yates1 April 1952
RR/76/59Letter from Peter Brian Medawar, on a paper 'The disappearance of the X zone of the mouse adrenal cortex during first pregnancy' by I C Jones, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society2 October 1951
RR/78/69Referee's report by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, on a paper 'A study of the branched cells of the mammalian epidermis with special reference to the fate of their division products' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Peter Brian Medawar21 October 1952
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