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For what discovery did Medawar share the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
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Peter Medawar shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Frank Burnet for their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance. Acquired immunological tolerance is the ability of an organism to not mount an immune response against its own tissues.
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