피터 메더워

소개

피터 메더워 경(영어: Sir Peter Medawar, /ˈmɛdəwər/, OM, CH, CBE, FRS, 1915년 2월 28일 ~ 1987년 10월 2일)은 브라질에서 태어난 영국의 생물학자이다. 거부 반응을 연구해 조직 이식의 기초를 닦았다. 1960년에 후천성 면역 내성을 발견한 공로로 프랭크 맥팔레인 버넷과 함께 노벨 생리학·의학상을 받았다.

Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-born British biologist and writer of Lebanese-British descent who, from a succession of research and teaching posts, and senior UK biomedical leadership positions, contributed seminal intellectual and research contributions in immunology, including those honored by a Nobel Prize in 1960. Medawar's works on the discovery of acquired immune tolerance, and on graft rejection, have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific work, he has been termed the "father of transplantation". He is remembered, as well, for his wit, both in person and in his popular writings. Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers"; Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known".