Medawar

[med-uh-wer]

noun

1. Peter Brian, 1915–87, English zoologist and anatomist, born in Brazil: Nobel Prize in medicine 1960.

Medawar

/ ˈmɛdəwə /

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

Example Sentences

As reported in the book "Hitler's Gift" by Jean Medawar and David Pyke, Germany had long been the acknowledged world leader in the hard sciences.

Read more on Salon

But Medawar, who died in 1987, gave up his Brazilian citizenship as an adolescent.

Read more on Reuters

The fetus, Dr. Medawar argued, is like a semiforeign transplant because half of its genes come from the father.

Read more on New York Times

The American biologist George C. Williams elaborated on Medawar’s ideas, adding that some genes may be beneficial in youth but detrimental later on, when selection would overlook their disadvantages.

Read more on New York Times

Yet this collection of 23 radio scripts, edited with scholarly annotation by Tony Medawar and Douglas Greene, is nearly as much fun just to read.

Read more on Washington Post