OM, FRS, Nobel Laureate. Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His pioneering wartime research on tissue grafting won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1960. Not a fan of psychoanalysis - in 1975 he called it "the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the 20th century". His autobiography is titled: Memoir of a Thinking Radish (1986). Died London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Peter Medawar
Commemorated ati
Sir Peter Medawar plaque
Sir Peter Medawar, 1915 - 1987, pioneer of transplantation immunology, lived ...
Sir Peter Medawar tree
The plaque is in front of a tree stump, so that accounts for the "lost" tree ...
Other Subjects
Dr. Dennis Geffen
O.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras, 1844 - 1959. Worked in the polio field.
1 memorial
Dr. James Cope
Medical adviser to City Companies, with an interest in history, particularly John Wilkes. Cope promoted the erection of the statue.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Dr William Henry Walter
Medical doctor and member of Brentford Council in 1909.
1 memorial
Association of Women Pharmacists
The Pharmaceutical Journal has "a short history of pharmacy and women".
1 memorial
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Wallace Cheesman
N5, Highbury Grange, 8
Wallace Bligh Cheesman, 1865 - 1947, founder of the Fawcett Association, lived here 1926 - 1927. London Borough of Islington Historic House
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Queen's Tower - IC
SW7, Imperial College Road, Queen's Tower
The stone was laid only 14 days into her 51st year so we're taking this as a late commemoration of her Golden Jubilee. And the remaining...
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
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