Medawar, Peter

Medawar, Peter. Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 1969. 

Medawar, Peter. Advice to a Young Scientist. Basic Books, Inc., New York. 1979. 

Medawar, Peter. Pluto s Republic. Oxford University Press, New York. 1982. 

Karl Popper, generally accepted as the leading twentieth-century philosopher of science,8 divided science into two basic steps the formation of a hypothesis (called variously an idea, a hypothesis, or a theory), followed by the testing of the hypothesis. The physicist Paul Davies and the biologist Peter Medawar, both admirers... 

This goes beyond the proposal attributed to Peter Medawar who suggested that Endocrine evolution is not an evolution of hormones, but an evolution of the uses to which they have been put . 

The British biologist Peter Medawar, one of the most perceptive commentators on the practice of science in the mid-twentieth century, has expressed very cogently where this preference for the abstract over the practical has led us ... 

Billington WD. The immunological problem of pregnancy 50 years with the hope of progress. A tribute to Peter Medawar. J Reprod Immunol. 2003 60 1-11. 

Burnat, Sir Frank Maefarlane (1899-1985) Australian virologist, who spent his working life at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. In the early 1930s he developed a method of growing influenza virus in chick embryos. He later discovered that immunological tolerance (failure of the immune response) required repeated exposure to the antigen. For this work he shared the 1960 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Sir Peter Medawar. He dso proposed the clonal selection theory. 

Scientists Peter Medawar and Sir Frank MacFar-lane Burnet were honored with a 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery that the rejection response to foreign cells is not present in animals in the embryonic stage. Usually, it is the recipient s own body that attacks a xenograft (or xenotransplant), but the grafted tissue itself can also launch an attack on the host s cells, a phenomenon known as graft-versus-host disease. 

The term virus comes from the Latin word for poison. Peter Medawar, a biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1960 for his contributions to medicine, defined a virus as a piece of nucleic acid surrounded by bad news. 2i Viruses can multiply only by means of a parasitic relationship, be it harmful or innocuous, with bacteria, plant, or animal cells. It is viruses that cause influenza (flu) and the common cold. 

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