Leslie Brent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German-born British immunologist and zoologist
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Place of Birth: Koszalin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
About Leslie Brent
- Leslie Baruch Brent (born 5 July 1925), born Lothar Baruch, in Köslin, Germany (now Koszalin, Poland), to German-Jewish parents, is a British immunologist and zoologist. He has been Professor Emeritus, University of London, since 1990.
- An immunologist, he is 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. 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 is 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 is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.He is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology
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