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  1. 1915-1987. Brazilian-born British
  2. immunologist, who, with Macfarlane Burnet,
  3. discovered that the body's resistance to
  4. grafted tissue is undeveloped in the newborn
  5. child, and studied the way it is acquired.
  6. Medawar's work has been vital in
  7. understanding the phenomenon of tissue
  8. rejection following transplantation. He and
  9. Burnet shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine
  10. 1960.
  11.