Portrait of Peter Brian Medawar
Date
c.1949
Sitter
Peter Brian Medawar (1915 - 1987) , Biologist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 150mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Peter Brian Medawar leaning over an open book on the table before him, facing right of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a black suit, a striped tie and a white shirt.
Sir Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949. He received the Society’s Royal Medal, 1959, Copley Medal, 1969, Faraday Prize, 1987, and was joint recipient with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1960 for ‘discovery of acquitted immunological tolerance’.
Sir Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949. He received the Society’s Royal Medal, 1959, Copley Medal, 1969, Faraday Prize, 1987, and was joint recipient with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1960 for ‘discovery of acquitted immunological tolerance’.
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