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Medawar Prize Lecturer
Medawar may refer to: * Jean Medawar (1913–2005), British author, chairman of the Family Planning Association *Joseph Medawar, Lebanese-American film producer and banker *Mardi Oakley Medawar, American novelist of Cherokee descent * Peter Medawar (1915–1987), Nobel Prize-winning British biologist **Medawar Lecture, a former annual Royal Society lecture **Medawar Medal, awarded by the British Transplant Society **Medawar zone, the area of problems most likely to produce fruitful results *Pierre Kamel Medawar Pierre Kamel Medawar, SMSP (26 December 1887, in Haifa, Israel – 27 April 1985) was auxiliary bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch. Life On August 15, 1938, he received the ordination to the priesthood in the Società dei Missionari d ... (1887–1985), bishop in the Melkite church *Medawar, a quarter of Beirut, Lebanon See also * {{dab, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Medawar
Jean Shinglewood Medawar, Lady Medawar (''née'' Taylor; 7 February 1913 – 3 May 2005) was a British author and a former chairman of the Family Planning Association, and wife of the British Nobel laureate Sir Peter Brian Medawar. Medawar was born in London, England, the daughter of Katherine Leslie (''née'' Paton) and Charles Henry Shinglewood Taylor. Her father was a physician working in Cambridge. Her mother was an American from St Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which .... She attended Benenden School in Kent and she won a scholarship to study zoology. She joined Somerville College, Oxford, and earned her BSc in zoology in 1935. She continued to work on the origin and development of lymphocytes under Howard Florey (who later won the Nobel Prize in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Medawar
Joseph Michel Medawar (in Arabic جوزف مدوّر, born November 22, 1961 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese American financial strategist and investment-banking counselor specializing in media, entertainment and related industries, film producer, and ex-convict. In 2006, he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and was ordered to pay $2.6 million in restitution to the defrauded investors. Early life Joseph Medawar was born in Beirut in a Christian Lebanese family. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 fleeing the war in Lebanon and settled with his family in Palos Verdes, California. Business Development Over the past 25 years, Medawar has been responsible for over $500 million in financial transactions. This consisted of acquisitions, mergers, newco's, co-production and production financing, theme parks and events, new film processes as well as biotech and medical industry financing and funding. Real Estate Mr. Medawar was also Co-chair for ADG in Los Angeles. AD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mardi Oakley Medawar
Mardi Oakley Medawar (born 1945) is an American novelist. Her novels mostly centre on Kiowa and Crow tribes, and are usually within the mystery genre. Personal life Medawar was born in Olla, Louisiana in 1945, the daughter of a Eastern Band Cherokee father and a French Louisianan mother. She attended San Diego State University and taught writing at several colleges. As of 2012, she lives on the Red Cliff Chippewa Reservation. She has described herself as an "Intertribalist". Novels * ''The Ft. Larned Incident'' (2000). * ''Murder at Medicine Lodge'' (1999). * ''Remembering the Osage Kid'' (1999). * ''The Misty Hills Of Home'' (1998). * ''Witch of the Palo Duro'' (1997). * ''Death at Rainy Mountain'', (1996). * ''People of the Whistling Waters'' (1993). Awards *''People of the Whistling Waters'', Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award for Best First Novel (Spur Awards sponsored by Western Writers of America Western Writers of America (WWA), founded 1953, promotes literature, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Medawar
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. Famous zoologists such as Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers", and Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known". Medawar was the youngest child of a Lebanese father and a British mother, and was both a Brazilian and British citizen by birth. He studied at Marlborough College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and was professor of zoology at the University of Birmingham and University College London. Until he was partially disabled by a cerebral infarction, he was Director of the National Institute for Medical Research at M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medawar Lecture
The Medawar Lecture was an annual lecture on the philosophy of science organised by the Royal Society of London in memory of Sir Peter Medawar. It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and the Bernal Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture is a public lecture organised annually by the Royal Society of London. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of the Wilkins Lecture, the Bernal Lecture and the Medawar Lecture. The subject matter for the lecture .... List of lecturers References * Royal Society lecture series Philosophy of science Philosophy events Annual events in the United Kingdom {{science-philo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medawar Medal
The British Transplant Society (BTS) awards the Medawar Medal each year for the best clinical and scientific research presentations by a scientist or doctor. The Medawar medal is the most prestigious award that the society can offer, is highly competitive, and cannot be won more than once by a single individual. The award is named after Peter Medawar, a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine or Physiology. Two medals are awarded every year. See also * List of medicine awards References British science and technology awards Medicine awards {{sci-award-stub External linksBTS Medawar Medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medawar Zone
The Medawar Zone is the area of problems which are most likely to produce fruitful results. Problems that are too simple are unlikely to produce novel or significant results. Problems that are too ambitious may not succeed at all or may be rejected by the research community at large. In an article on research creativity in research, Craig Loehle named this zone after Sir Peter Medawar, a Nobel prize-winning medical researcher who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s. In ''The Art of the Soluble'', Medawar suggested that there seems to be a certain time when scientific question A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can testable, test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on prev ...s seem especially ripe for answering, whereas other questions remain elusive and out-of-reach from investigation.Medawar, P. B. 1967. ''The Art of the Solub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Kamel Medawar
Pierre Kamel Medawar, SMSP (26 December 1887, in Haifa, Israel – 27 April 1985) was auxiliary bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch. Life On August 15, 1938, he received the ordination to the priesthood in the Società dei Missionari di San Paolo. On 13 March 1943, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch and Titular Bishop of Pelusium of Greek Melkites. The ordination as bishop was held on June 6, 1943. In 1969 he retired due to age-related reasons and became emeritus Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch until his death on April 27, 1985. He was a participant at the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council and assisted as co-consecrator at the consecration of bishops Maximos V Hakim, Elias Zoghby, Joseph Tawil and Nicolas Hajj Nicolas Hajj, BS (born on 30 June 1907 in Machgara, Lebanon - died on 12 January 1995) was a Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baniyas. Life Nicolas Hajj was ordained to the priesthood on April 1, 1934 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
