BIOLOGIST

Peter Medawar

1915 - 1987

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Sir Peter Brian Medawar (; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific works, he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Medawar has received more than 516,729 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Peter Medawar is the 183rd most popular biologist (down from 162nd in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 83rd in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Medawar ranks 183 out of 1,097. Before him are Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob von Uexküll, Theodor Escherich, Anna Atkins, George Robert Gray, and Georg Wilhelm Steller. After him are Stephen Jay Gould, Armand David, Jeffrey C. Hall, Ian Wilmut, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, and Eva Ekeblad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Peter Medawar ranks 52. Before him are Mario Monicelli, Modibo Keïta, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Terence Young, Kaoru Ishikawa, and Marie-Louise von Franz. After him are Helmut Schön, Miroslav Filipović, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Branko Ćopić, and Santiago Carrillo. Among people deceased in 1987, Peter Medawar ranks 42. Before him are Einar Gerhardsen, Douglas Sirk, Luis Federico Leloir, Peter Tosh, Erskine Caldwell, and Américo Tomás. After him are Mahadevi Varma, Naji al-Ali, Henry Ford II, William Stuart-Houston, Anthony de Mello, and Kishore Kumar.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Peter Medawar ranks 98 out of 2,236. Before him are Pepe (1983), Sônia Braga (1950), Cláudio Taffarel (1966), Toninho Cerezo (1955), Mauro Ramos (1930), and José Sarney (1930). After him are Telê Santana (1931), Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (1943), Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1905), Leonardo Araújo (1969), Elis Regina (1945), and João Figueiredo (1918).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Brazil

Among biologists born in Brazil, Peter Medawar ranks 1. After him are Bertha Lutz (1894), Euclides da Cunha (1866), Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922), and João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842).

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