Peter Medawar

Nobel-laureate immunologist (1960, transplantation immunity) and one of the 20th century's most prominent public voices on the philosophy and practice of science. Matters to this vault as the figure who directed the Royal Society's institutional and philosophical response to Victor Rothschild's 1971 customer-contractor report — the subject of Calver and Parker's 2015 paper that independently corroborates the vault's Rothschild quote. That same paper ties Medawar to Karl Popper's 1976 Royal Society Fellowship, a possible bridge into the vault's existing Popper/Kuhn philosophy-of-science thread (entity-thomas-kuhn) — not yet pursued as its own claim.

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