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P. B. Medawar

Sir Peter Brian Medawar, OM, FRS (February 28, 1915 - October 2, 1987) was a Brazilian-born Lebanese-British scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts tissue transplants. He was co-winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

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