Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Shimmering, Warm and Bright is the third album by the Norwegian band Bel Canto.
Heiða Kristín Helgadóttir
Heiða Kristin Helgadóttir( born 20 April 1983) is an Icelandic politician and entrepreneur.
She founded and led the Best Party and Bright Future.
Rupert E. Billingham
Rupert Everett Billingham FRS( 15 October 1921 – 16 November 2002) was a British biologist who did significant research in the fields of reproductive immunology and organ transplantation.
" He made numerous fundamental contributions to our modern knowledge of the mechanisms of graft rejection and how to prevent it, and he analysed some of the mechanisms responsible for the survival of the mammalian foetus in an immunologically hostile environment".
Billingham was born in Warminster, Wiltshire, the son of a dairy farmer.
He completed his BSc in zoology at Oriel College, Oxford.
His studies were interrupted by World War II, he completed war time service in the Royal Navy serving on an anti-submarine escort.
He returned to Oxford in 1946 and became Peter Medawar's research student.
During his PhD he worked on skin grafts in guinea pigs, demonstrating that when black skin was grafted onto white skin, the white skin became black.
They proposed that the change was due to the dissemination of a self replicating agent from normal melanocytes into non-melanin- producing cells; but this hypothesis was wrong and they later showed that pigment spread was due to cell migration.
In 1947 Medawar accepted the chair of zoology at the University of Birmingham.
He continued to work on transplantation with Medawar, and in 1951 they both accepted positions at the University College London.
Together they demonstrated immune tolerance as proposed by Frank Macfarlane Burnet.
Burnet and Medawar received the Nobel Prize for this work in 1960.
They also worked on graft- versus- host disease.
In 1951 Billingham married and had 3 children with his wife Jean Billingham.
Billingham emigrated to the United States in 1957, and took a position at the Wistar Institute.
In 1965 he became chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania.
The same year, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1971.
He died in Boston aged 81, following a long illness with Parkinson's disease.
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Peter Medawar
Sir Peter Brian Medawar( 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a Brazilian- born British biologist, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants.
For his works in immunology he is regarded as the" father of transplantation".
He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings.
Famous zoologists such as Richard Dawkins referred to him as" the wittiest of all scientific writers", and Stephen Jay Gould as" the cleverest man I have ever known".
Medawar was the younger son of a Lebanese father and a British mother, and was a naturalised British citizen.
He studied at Marlborough College and Magdalen College, Oxford and was professor of zoology at the University of Birmingham and University College London.
Until he was partially disabled by a cerebral infarction, he was Director of the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill.
With his doctoral student Leslie Brent and postdoctoral fellow Rupert E. Billingham, he demonstrated the principle of acquired immunological tolerance( the phenomenon of unresponsiveness of the immune system to certain molecules), which was theoretically predicted by Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet.
This became the foundation of tissue and organ transplantation.
He and Burnet shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine" for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance".
Bright Nxumalo
Bright Nxumalo( born 3 March 1978) is a Swaziland international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
As of February 2010, he plays for Eleven Men in Flight in the Swazi Premier League and has won four caps for his country.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
The Compatibility Gene
The Compatibility Gene is a 2014 book about the discovery of the mechanism of compatibility in the human immune system by professor Daniel M. Davis.
It describes the history of immunology with the discovery of the principle of graft rejection by Peter Medawar, and the way the body distinguishes self from not-self via natural killer cells.
The compatibility mechanism contributes also to the success of pregnancy by helping the placenta to form, and may play a role in mate selection.
2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners- up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two group winners and two runners- up.
Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together.
The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter- finals.
Leslie Brent
Leslie Baruch Brent( 5 July 1925 – 21 December 2019) was a British immunologist and zoologist.
He was Professor Emeritus, University of London, from 1990.
An immunologist, he was the co-discoverer with Peter Medawar and Rupert Billingham of acquired immunological tolerance.
They injected cells from donor mice into fetal mice, and later neonatal mice, which would as adults receive donor skin grafts without rejection.
Brent was born Lothar Baruch, in Köslin, Germany( now Koszalin, Poland), to German Jewish parents, Charlotte( Rosenthal) and Arthur Baruch.
To avoid persecution in the largely non-Jewish Köslin, his family placed him in the Jewish Orphanage Berlin- Pankow in Berlin in 1936.
In 1938, at age 13, to escape the rising anti-Semitism of the Sturmabteilung( Storm Troopers) and teachers, Brent was sent to England on the first of the Kindertransports and became a pupil at Anna Essinger's Bunce Court School.
His parents and older sister stayed behind in Germany.
Because his status as a German national would have made him liable to execution in the event of capture, he was advised to change his name.
After the war, he found out that his parents were sent to Riga, Latvia and executed.
There are three stolpersteine for his parents and sister in Berlin.
After the war, he became a British citizen and enrolled at University of Birmingham.
As a secular Jew who escaped the Holocaust, Brent was highly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
" Education:" Bunce Court School, Kent; Birmingham Central Technical College; University of Birmingham( President, Guild of Undergraduates, 1950 – 51); University College London( Ph.D).
He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.
Brent died in December 2019 at the age of 94.
He was posthumously appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire( MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to Holocaust education.

Question: Are Peter Medawar and Bright Nxumalo both from the same country?
Answer: no