梅达沃是20世纪最伟大的生物医学科学家之一。他揭示了器官移植排斥的免疫学性质,开创了临床器官移植的新领域;他发现的获得性免疫耐受现象通过诱导移植耐受的方法,为最终彻底解决移植排斥奠定了基础,并因此获得1960年的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。梅达沃在音乐、歌剧以及哲学方面的修养,使他的影响远远超出了生物医学的范围。 Medavo was one of the greatest biomedical scientists in the 20th century. He revealed the immunological properties of organ transplant rejection and pioneered a new area of ​​clinical organ transplantation; the acquired immune tolerance he found, through induction of transplant tolerance, laid the groundwork for an eventual and complete solution to transplant rejection and was therefore obtained 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Medarwoo’s music, opera and philosophical accomplishments have brought him far beyond the limits of biomedicine.