Peter Medawar

Sir Peter B. Medawar, OM, FRS (1915--1987). British immunologist of Arab extraction (which, as he said in Memoir of a Thinking Radish, makes him sound like a kind of gum). Won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 for work on tissue transplantation which eventually helped make organ transplants possible. In addition, he wrote extensively, and extremely well, on science and philosophy.

``Biology and Man's Estimation of Himself''
``On `The Effecting of All Things Possible' ''
``Does Ethology Throw Any Light on Human Behavior?''
``The Future of Man,'' the last of six lectures of the same title. This one is on ``exosomatic'' (i.e., mental) evolution and heredity.
Review of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man
``Technology and Evolution''