JBS's comment is retold by JMS here, where they also talk about how handsome PBM was ("touched by the gods" as Tinbergen put it). www.webofstories.com/play/john.ma...
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Petition to rename the SSE Lifetime Achievement Award the Top Banana Award.
Edwin Goodrich on makes a branch of zoology reach adult stature.
THURSDAY TRIVIA
Who did Peter Medawar describe as “in some ways the cleverest and in some ways the silliest man I have ever known”?
Remembered by PB Medawar (1986, p. 56).
Thanks for all the guesses!
The answer is JBS Haldane.
@tnavinash.bsky.social @marekkohn.bsky.social @shikharabhat.bsky.social nailed it right away.
JBS, in turn, said of Medawar “He smiles and smiles and is a villain.”
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Today is the last day of the Princeton University Press summer sale.
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John Maynard Smith talks about the sides of PB Medawar's character
