However, Medawar acknowledged his teacher's devotion to biology, while the educator, in turn, recognized the pupil's interest. The biology master encouraged Medawar to pursue the science under the tutelage of one of his former students, John Young, at Magdalen College. Medawar followed this advice and enrolled at Magdalen in 1932 as a zoology student. He found Young to be an excellent teacher.
Medawar earned his bachelor's degree from Magdalen in 1935, the same year he accepted an appointment as Christopher Welch Scholar and Senior Demonstrator at Magdalen College. He followed Young's recommendation that he work with pathologist Howard Florey, who was undertaking a study of penicillin, work for which he would later become well-known. Medawar leaned toward experimental embryology and tissue cultures. While at Magdalen, he met zoology student Jean Shinglewood Taylor , who also joined Florey's lab. They married in 1937. In a 1984 interview with New Scientist, she recalled her impressions of Medawar at Magdalen: "Nobody could forget him, because he was very tall, very untidy, obviously extremely clever, and very dominant." She spent less than a year in Florey's lab.
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