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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960

"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet Peter Brian Medawar
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet Peter Brian Medawar
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Australia United Kingdom
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research
Melbourne, Australia		 University College
London, United Kingdom
b. 1899
d. 1985		 b. 1915
d. 1987
 
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