Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960
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Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Prize share: 1/2
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Peter Brian Medawar
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960 was awarded jointly to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Brian Medawar "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
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