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
[ mĕd′ə-wər ]
Brazilian-born British biologist. He shared a 1960 Nobel Prize for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.