Word: medawar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Summerlin's work was pushed by Good and approved by an independent scientific advisory committee, it soon came under criticism. Several scientists-including Britain's Sir Peter Medawar, winner of a 1960 Nobel Prize for his work on tissue grafting -tried but were unable to duplicate Summerlin's results. Apparently Sum-merlin himself could not repeat his earlier experiments; in a paper now awaiting publication in the scientific journal Transplantation, Good, Summerlin and Dr. John Ninnemann report that although they tried five different transplantation techniques on 500 mice, they were unable to get the new tissue...