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Medawar

Sir Peter Brian. 1915--87, English zoologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1960) with Sir Macfarlane Burnet for work on immunology
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Entering into an alliance involves the introduction of rules and I feel that the success of the GCC airlines has a lot to do with strong independence and free behaviour," Medawar added, in a report released recently and which looks at the Middle East aviation industry in some depth.
Region's carriers going it alone
But within a few days of the address, while reading the lesson at Exeter Cathedral, Medawar suffered a stroke which greatly incapacitated him for the rest of his life.
Liberalism in the new millennium: Ian McEwan's Saturday
Based in Dubai, Medawar will report to FrE[umlaut]dE[umlaut]ric Spagnou, Vice President Europe, Middle East & Africa.
New Vice President to lead Amadeus' Airline business in the Middle East
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The World According to Monsanto
Maiden, Department of Zoology, The Peter Medawar Bldg, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK; email: martin.
Extended sequence typing of Campylobacter spp., United Kingdom
CONNOISSEURS OF HOMICIDAL book reviews have long treasured the virtuosic evisceration that British immunologist Sir Peter Medawar performed in 1950 on Teilhard de Chardin, that once fashionable Gallic mountebank.
Court historian: Andrew Roberts, the Anglosphere's greatest modern mythologist, may be perfectly suited to sanitize the Bush presidency
125), and Medawar (1977) that, "for a biologist, the alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all" (p 23).
The identification, assessment, and amelioration of barriers to America's acceptance of evolutionary theory
Medawar, The Act of Creation, in THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE
The art of the unsolvable: locating the vital center of science for environmental law & policy
This dictum sits challengingly alongside that of another famous scientist, Peter Medawar who observed, "If politics is the art of the possible, research is the art of the soluble.
Risk management: it's not rocket science ... it's much more complicated
Like author-doctors David Healy, Peter Breggin, Charles Medawar, Mary Ann Block, and Fred Baughman, to name just a few dissidents, his piece tarnishes the class of psychiatric drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill
Nobel Laureate Peter Medawar (1979) expressed this concept stating: "The scientific ideal of an absolute truth divorced from human judgment is a dangerous fallacy that seriously impedes progress.
What is Science?
Peter Medawar, The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice
On eponymy in economics

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