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‘Actively acquired tolerance’ of foreign cells.

Publication Details

Nature (Lond.), 172, 603- 06. 1953 CE.

Proof of Burnet and Fenner’s theory of immunity. For their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance Medawar and Burnet (No. 2578.7) shared the Nobel Prize in 1960.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#2578.11
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/4148
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLactively-acquired-tolerance-of-foreign-cells