The International Transplantation Society has awarded its first Peter Medawar Prize to two researchers in immunology. Jacques Miller and Sir James L. Gowans received the award last month at the ...

Photo: The identical Herrick twins were the first participants in a successful kidney transplant. The idea of transplanting organs is not new. It can be found in myths of the ancient Greeks and was ...

MEMOIR OF A THINKING RADISH An Autobiography. Peter Medawar. Oxford University Press, New York, 1986. 221 pp., illus. $17.95; £12.50. THE SMALL WORLD OF FRED HOYLE An Autobiography. Fred Hoyle.

Introduction / David Pyke -- 1. The Phenomenon of Man -- 2. Hypothesis and imagination -- 3. Is the scientific paper a fraud? -- 4. The Act of Creation -- 5. Darwin's illness -- 6. Two conceptions of ...