Peter Medawar
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1960for discovery of acquired immunological toleranceTogether with: Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- Citizenship
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United States 
United Kingdom - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/28/1915
- place of birth
- Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis
- date of death
- 10/2/1987
- place of death
- London
- Lived
- 72 years
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- educated at
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- University of Oxford
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- Magdalen College
- Marlborough College
- University of Oxford
- member of
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- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1961
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1965
- Royal Society of London
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- field of work
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- zoology
- occupation
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- professor
- zoologist
- researcher
- physiologist
- immunologist
- autobiographer
- physician
- anatomist
- employer
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- University College London
- Magdalen College
- University of Birmingham
- doctoral student
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- Avrion Mitchison