1915 - 1987
Sir Peter Brian Medawar (; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a Brazilian-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 479,678 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Peter Medawar is the 163rd most popular biologist (up from 201st in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Brazil (up from 109th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Biologist.
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Among biologists, Peter Medawar ranks 163 out of 841. Before him are Jakob von Uexküll, Olaus Rudbeck, Johan Christian Fabricius, Paul Greengard, Anna Atkins, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. After him are Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, César Milstein, Renato Dulbecco, Louis Agassiz, and Michael Houghton.
1864 - 1944
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 157
1630 - 1702
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 158
1745 - 1808
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 159
1925 - 2019
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 160
1799 - 1871
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 161
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 162
1915 - 1987
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 163
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 164
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 165
1927 - 2002
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 166
1914 - 2012
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 167
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 168
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 169
Among people born in 1915, Peter Medawar ranks 50. Before him are Franz Josef Strauss, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Alan Watts, Kaoru Ishikawa, Terence Young, and Laurent Schwartz. After him are Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Modibo Keïta, Mario Monicelli, W. Arthur Lewis, Rashid Behbudov, and Konstantin Simonov. Among people deceased in 1987, Peter Medawar ranks 39. Before him are André Masson, Anthony de Mello, Henry Ford II, Douglas Sirk, Didier Pironi, and Peter Tosh. After him are Mahadevi Varma, James Baldwin, Randolph Scott, Luis Federico Leloir, Yakov Zeldovich, and Rouben Mamoulian.
1915 - 1988
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 44
1915 - 2000
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 45
1915 - 1973
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 46
1915 - 1989
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 47
1915 - 1994
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 48
1915 - 2002
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 49
1915 - 1987
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 50
1915 - 1996
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 51
1915 - 1977
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 52
1915 - 2010
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 53
1915 - 1991
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 54
1915 - 1989
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 55
1915 - 1979
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 56
1896 - 1987
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 33
1931 - 1987
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 34
1917 - 1987
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 35
1897 - 1987
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 36
1952 - 1987
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 37
1944 - 1987
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 38
1915 - 1987
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 39
1907 - 1987
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 40
1924 - 1987
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 41
1898 - 1987
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 42
1906 - 1987
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 43
1914 - 1987
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 44
1897 - 1987
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 45
Among people born in Brazil, Peter Medawar ranks 83 out of 2,067. Before him are Vicente Feola (1909), José Freire Falcão (1925), Moacir Barbosa Nascimento (1921), Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948), Anita Garibaldi (1821), and Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928). After him are Sônia Braga (1950), Elza Soares (1930), Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1905), Amarildo Tavares da Silveira (1939), Hilderaldo Bellini (1930), and Leonardo Boff (1938).
1909 - 1975
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 77
1925 - 2021
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 78
1921 - 2000
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 79
1948 - 2003
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 80
1821 - 1849
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 81
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 82
1915 - 1987
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 83
1950 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 84
1930 - 2022
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 85
1905 - 1985
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 86
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 87
1930 - 2014
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 88
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 89
Among biologists born in Brazil, Peter Medawar ranks 1. After him are Bertha Lutz (1894), Euclides da Cunha (1866), João Barbosa Rodrigues (1842), and Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922).
1915 - 1987
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 1
1894 - 1976
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 2
1866 - 1909
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 3
1842 - 1909
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 4
1922 - 2018
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 5