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Medawar, Sir Peter
     
Medawar, Sir Peter
(1915-87) a British zoologist (=a scientist who studies animals and their behaviour), who made important discoveries about the immune system (=the system that your body uses to protect itself from disease). He won a Nobel Prize for medicine.
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