Person    | Male  Born 28/2/1915  Died 2/10/1987

Sir Peter Medawar

Categories: Medicine

Countries: Brazil

OM, FRS, Nobel Laureate.  Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His pioneering wartime research on tissue grafting won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1960. Not a fan of psychoanalysis - in 1975 he called it "the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the 20th century". His autobiography is titled: Memoir of a Thinking Radish (1986). Died London. 

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Sir Peter Medawar

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Sir Peter Medawar plaque

Sir Peter Medawar, 1915 - 1987, pioneer of transplantation immunology, lived ...

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Sir Peter Medawar tree

The plaque is in front of a tree stump, so that accounts for the "lost" tree ...

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London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, station 39

London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, station 39

200 volunteer ambulance drivers and personnel served, 1939 - 1945.  The picture shows a book (available at Amazon) "At the core of the narrative lies the memories of Station Officer May Greenup who...

Group, Medicine

1 memorial
Hunt's House at Guy's Hospital

Hunt's House at Guy's Hospital

Another, partial, view of this building here.  Dates approximate.

Building, Medicine

1 memorial
Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital

Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital

From Lost Hospitals of London: "In 1862 Dr. Morell Mackenzie ... , one of the pioneers of laryngology, founded the Free Dispensary for Diseases of the Throat and Loss of Voice at 5 King Street (lat...

Group, Medicine

1 memorial
Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St Georg...

Person, Medicine, Science

4 memorials