Memoir of a Thinking Radish - an autobiography
by Medawar, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Slightly Worn
- ISBN 10
- 0192177370
- ISBN 13
- 9780192177377
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 1986. Illustrated, octavo, pp (8), 209, very cleaninternally, blue cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which has the very slightest signs of use. [Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific works, he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers"; Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known".]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019983
- Title
- Memoir of a Thinking Radish - an autobiography
- Author
- Medawar, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Slightly Worn
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0192177370
- ISBN 13
- 9780192177377
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- immunologists.Greta britain. British. biography.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Medicine; History of Science;
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