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Medawar

[med-uh-wer]
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noun
  1. Peter Brian,1915–87, English zoologist and anatomist, born in Brazil: Nobel Prize in medicine 1960.
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Medawar

noun
  1. Sir Peter Brian. 1915–87, English zoologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1960) with Sir Macfarlane Burnet for work on immunology
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medawar in Medicine

Medawar

(mĕd′ə-wər)Peter Brian 1915-1987
  1. Brazilian-born British biologist. He shared a 1960 Nobel Prize for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.
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