Sir Peter Medawar :: 1962-1971
Sir Peter Medawar (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1960) succeeded Sir Charles Harington to establish a major centre for immunological research at the Institute. During this time:
- the discovery was made that lymphocytes of different types co-operate in the immune system (N.A.Mitchison, 1967)
- the recombination of avian and human influenza viruses involved in the generation of pandemic influenza was described (H.G. Pereira,1967)
- the first analysis of the structure of adenovirus was reported (R.C. Valentine, 1975)