Medawar

[ med-uh-wer ]
/ ˈmɛd ə wər /

noun

Peter Brian,1915–87, English zoologist and anatomist, born in Brazil: Nobel Prize in medicine 1960.

British Dictionary definitions for medawar

Medawar
/ (ˈmɛdəwə) /

noun

Sir Peter Brian. 1915–87, English zoologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1960) with Sir Macfarlane Burnet for work on immunology

Medical definitions for medawar

Medawar
[ mĕdə-wər ]
Peter Brian 1915-1987

Brazilian-born British biologist. He shared a 1960 Nobel Prize for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.