Peter Medawar

Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-born biologist and writer of Lebanese-British descent who, from a succession of research and teaching posts and senior United Kingdom biomedical leadership positions, contributed seminal discoveries in immunology, including one honoured by a Nobel Prize shared with Australian Mac Burnet in 1960. His work on the discovery of acquired immune tolerance, and on graft rejection, has been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants, and he has been termed the father of transplantation. He is remembered as well for his wit, both in person and in his popular writings.