Peter Medawar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5899678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Medawar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Medawar |
| SIGNATURE | MEDAWAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical Research Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Network Collective
First-hand account of the rise and fall of a scientific paradigm Shows how scientific fiction turns to fact Highlights the origin of scientific hype Includes interviews with prominent scientists The network paradigm dominated immunological research from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The originator, Niels Jerne, hypothesized that the vast diversity of antibodies in each individual forms a network of mutual "idiotypic" recognition, thus regula…
The strange case of the spotted mice and other classic essays on science
Hypothesis and imagination
If an educated layman were asked to set down his understanding of what goes on in the head when scientific discoveries are made and of what it is about a scientist that qualifies him to make them, his account of the matter might go something like this. A scientist is a man who has cultivated (if indeed he was not born with) the restless, analytical, problem-seeking, problem-solving temperament that marks his possession of a Scientific Mind. Scien…
The Effecting of all Things Possible
Similarities appear when the scientific and philosophical conditions of the seventeenth century are compared with the present world. Hope and despairs existed then as they do now, but the great philosophical revival of the past seems to fail us now. Possible reasons are explored and new parallels discovered. It is the author's faith that the present syndrome of dissatisfaction and unbelief will pass again a there can be no contentment but in proc…
The problems of transplantation
The problems of transplantation are many and various, but in a lecture delivered in the Royal College of Surgeons the surgical problems naturally take first place. The surgical problems of transplantation are of two kinds: those that have to do with the act of transplantation itself, and those that turn on the phenomenon of incompatibility—on the fact that grafts taken from one human being are not normally acceptable to a second. Thanks to advanc…
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The problems of transplantation
The problems of transplantation are many and various, but in a lecture delivered in the Royal College of Surgeons the surgical problems naturally take first place. The surgical problems of transplantation are of two kinds: those that have to do with the act of transplantation itself, and those that turn on the phenomenon of incompatibility—on the fact that grafts taken from one human being are not normally acceptable to a second. Thanks to advanc…
The Effecting of all Things Possible
Similarities appear when the scientific and philosophical conditions of the seventeenth century are compared with the present world. Hope and despairs existed then as they do now, but the great philosophical revival of the past seems to fail us now. Possible reasons are explored and new parallels discovered. It is the author's faith that the present syndrome of dissatisfaction and unbelief will pass again a there can be no contentment but in proc…
The strange case of the spotted mice and other classic essays on science
Hypothesis and imagination
If an educated layman were asked to set down his understanding of what goes on in the head when scientific discoveries are made and of what it is about a scientist that qualifies him to make them, his account of the matter might go something like this. A scientist is a man who has cultivated (if indeed he was not born with) the restless, analytical, problem-seeking, problem-solving temperament that marks his possession of a Scientific Mind. Scien…
The Network Collective
First-hand account of the rise and fall of a scientific paradigm Shows how scientific fiction turns to fact Highlights the origin of scientific hype Includes interviews with prominent scientists The network paradigm dominated immunological research from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The originator, Niels Jerne, hypothesized that the vast diversity of antibodies in each individual forms a network of mutual "idiotypic" recognition, thus regula…
Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)