Copy of a letter from Pontecorvo to Professor Sir Peter Brian Medawar about meeting up during his visit to London for a Mycological Society meeting in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 198/2/2/11/5
• Dates of Creation:26 Feb 1958
• Physical Description:
  1 letter (1 page)

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Sir Peter Brian Medwar's work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, and was Knighted in 1965.

• Personal Names

  Medawar, Peter Brian, 1915-1987, Knight, biologist and Nobel Prize winner,

• Corporate Names

  University of Cambridge, c1209-,