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Sir Peter B. Medawar
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Also Known As Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Born February 28, 1915 • Rio de Janeiro • Brazil
Died October 2, 1987 (aged 72) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1969) • Nobel Prize (1960)
Subjects Of Study antigen • antigen-antibody reaction • immunity • skin graft • tissue • transplant

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César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
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Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Baruj Benacerraf.
Baruj Benacerraf
American immunologist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
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Jean Dausset.
Jean Dausset
French hematologist and immunologist
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Joseph E. Murray
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Alexis Carrel
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
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