1. Jean Shinglewood Medawar, Lady Medawar was a British author and a former chairman of the Family Planning Association, and wife of the British Nobel laureate Sir Peter Brian Medawar.
15 Facts About Jean Medawar
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Jean Medawar's mother was an American from St Louis, Missouri.
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Jean Medawar attended Benenden School in Kent and she won a scholarship to study zoology.
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Jean Medawar joined Somerville College, Oxford, and earned her BSc in zoology in 1935.
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Jean Medawar continued to work on the origin and development of lymphocytes under Howard Florey until her marriage in 1937.
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Jean Medawar became a member of its executive in 1960.
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Jean Medawar worked with the Citizens' Advice Bureau, the National Marriage Guidance Council and with young offenders at HM Prison Holloway at Hampstead.
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Jean Medawar was appointed chairman of the FPA in 1966, owing to the death of Margaret Pyke, and held the post till 1970.
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Jean Medawar co-founded the Margaret Pyke Centre for Study and Training in Family Planning and the Margaret Pyke Memorial Trust in 1968, becoming its Director in 1976 until her death.
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Jean Medawar published her memoir A Very Decided Preference: Life with Peter Jean Medawar in 1990 in which she gives an account of her personal life.
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Jean Medawar met Peter Medawar in Oxford, with the first impression that he looked 'mildly diabolical'.
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Jean Medawar approached him for the meaning of "heuristic", which led to a continued tutorial and lasting friendship.
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Jean Medawar's family did not want her to marry him because Peter Medawar was of Lebanese descent and was not financially well-to-do.
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Jean Medawar devoted her time raising their children while her husband was committed to scientific research.
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Jean Medawar's husband won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960.