Portrait of Peter Brian Medawar
Date
c.1969
Sitter
Peter Brian Medawar (1915 - 1987) , Biologist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
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Description
Seated portrait of Peter Brian Medawar in left profile, arms crossed and leaning on a table below him. Dressed in a dark suit and tie, and white shirt.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower right-hand corner.
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’.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower right-hand corner.
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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