What is Peter Medawar?
{{Infobox_Scientist | name = Sir Peter Medawar | image = Peter Brian Medawar.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1915|2|28}} | birth_place = [[Petrópolis]], [[Brazil]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1987|10|2|1915|2|28}} | death_place = London, United Kingdom | nationality = British | field = [[Zoology]]; [[Immunology]] | alma_mater = Oxford University | work_institution = [[Birmingham University]]<br>[[University College London]]<br>[[National Institute for Medical Research]] | influences = [[Howard Florey]]; [[J.Z. Young]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] 1960; [[Order of Merit]] 1981 | footnotes = }} [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''Peter Brian Medawar''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British [[biologist]]. His work was important to [[skin graft]]s and [[organ transplant]]s. Transplants of skin and organs from other people are usually rejected. This is an action by the [[immune system]]. Medawar showed that sometimes this reaction can be avoided, and why. He worked on [[graft rejection]] and the discovery of [[acquired immune tolerance]]. He was awarded the 1960 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], with Sir [[Frank Macfarlane Burnet]]. Until he was partially disabled by a [[Stroke (medicine)|stroke]], Medawar was Director of the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London. == Achievements == Medawar was professor of zoology at the [[University of Birmingham]] (1947–51) and [[University College London]] (1951–62). In 1962 he was appointed director of the National Institute for Medical Research, and became professor of experimental medicine at the [[Royal Institution]] (1977–83), and president of the [[Royal Postgraduate Medical School]] (1981–87). Medawar was a scientist of great inventiveness who was interested in many other subjects