BIOLOGIST

Peter Medawar

1915 - 1987

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Sir Peter Brian Medawar (; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific works, he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers"; Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Medawar is the 296th most popular biologist (down from 183rd in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 98th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Medawar ranks 296 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Lorenz Oken, Otto Brunfels, Jean Cabanis, Armen Takhtajan, and Juliane Koepcke. After him are George Bentham, Wilbur Scoville, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Jacob Georg Agardh, and Takenoshin Nakai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Peter Medawar ranks 85. Before him are Marie-Louise von Franz, Piet de Jong, Tadeusz Kantor, Denis Thatcher, Ibolya Csák, and Kunihiko Kodaira. After him are Godfrey Brown, Branko Ćopić, Kiyosi Itô, Horst Sindermann, Thomas Merton, and William Masters. Among people deceased in 1987, Peter Medawar ranks 62. Before him are Will Sampson, Gordon Gollob, Mahadevi Varma, Camille Chamoun, Bob Fosse, and Geraldine Page. After him are Carlos José Castilho, Buddy Rich, Henri Cochet, Joop den Uyl, Naji al-Ali, and Alejandro Scopelli.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Peter Medawar ranks 149 out of 2,236. Before him are Aldair (1965), Adriana Lima (1981), Thiago Motta (1982), Augusto Boal (1931), Fernando Meirelles (1955), and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (1847). After him are Carlos José Castilho (1927), Lúcio (1978), Odilo Scherer (1949), João Braz de Aviz (1947), Milton Nascimento (1942), and Tarsila do Amaral (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Brazil

Among biologists born in Brazil, Peter Medawar ranks 1. After him are Euclides da Cunha (1866), Bertha Lutz (1894), João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842), and Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922).

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