Avrion Mitchison was a British zoologist and immunologist.
13 Facts About Avrion Mitchison
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Avrion Mitchison was married to Lorna Margaret Martin, daughter of Maj-Gen John Simson Stuart Martin, CSI.
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Avrion Mitchison was educated at Leighton Park School and secured a Classics scholarship to Balliol College.
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Avrion Mitchison received his DPhil at New College, Oxford with Nobelist Sir Peter Medawar.
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Avrion Mitchison was a Professor Emeritus at University College London.
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Avrion Mitchison died on 28 December 2022, at the age of 94.
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Avrion Mitchison was a founder member of the British Society for Immunology alongside John H Humphrey, Bob White, and Robin Coombs.
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Avrion Mitchison discovered the transference of transplantation immunity by sensitised cells, thereby providing evidence relating transplantation immunity to hypersensitivity reactions of the 'delayed' type.
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Avrion Mitchison devised a method for revealing mixtures of cells of different genotypes in vivo and used it to be equal first in demonstrating that the 'radiation recovery factor' is a graft of living cells and not a humoral agent.
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Avrion Mitchison carried out the most exact quantitative analysis of tolerance hitherto attempted in a cellular system and proved that persistence of tolerance depends on persistence of antigen.
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Avrion Mitchison was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967.
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Avrion Mitchison was a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
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Avrion Mitchison held an Honorary Doctorate from the Weizmann Institute and in 1995 was awarded the Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology.