| Peter Medawar  AKA Peter Brian Medawar
Born: 28-Feb-1915
Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2-Oct-1987
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Zoologist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Acquired immunological tolerance Military service: (skin graft research, burn unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Scotland) Wife: Jean Shinglewood Taylor (m. 1937, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Charles
Son: Alexander
Daughter: Caroline
Daughter: Louise
University: Magdalen College, Oxford University (1928-32)
University: BA Zoology, Magdalen College, Oxford University (1935)
Professor: Zoology, University of Birmingham (1947-51)
Professor: Zoology, University College London (1951-62)
Professor: Royal Institution (1977-83)
Administrator: President, Royal Postgraduate Medical School (1981-87)
Nobel Prize for Medicine 1960 (with Frank Macfarlane Burnet)
Royal Medal 1959
Knighthood 1965
Copley Medal 1969
Order of Merit 1981
Faraday Prize 1987
American Association for the Advancement of Science Foreign Member
American Philosophical Society
Athenaeum Club (London)
Lebanese Ancestry Paternal
Author of books:
The Uniqueness of the Individual (1957)
The Future of Man (1960, lectures)
The Art of the Soluble (1967, essays)
The Hope of Progress (1972, essays)
Advice to a Young Scientist (1979)
Pluto's Republic (1982)
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