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We had was a Brazil-born British citizen who won a Nobel in medicine. He could have been a brazilian citizen, but he renounced his citizenship to avoid Brazil's
by sanoli 12y ago
We had was a Brazil-born British citizen who won a Nobel in medicine. He could have been a brazilian citizen, but he renounced his citizenship to avoid Brazil's mandatory military service, which to this day is still mandatory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar
- cfontes 12y agoThanks for the info. About the Military service, you make it sound like it's Israel mandatory... It's more like you only have to show up there and sign a paper. Today almost only the ones that really want get to do the military service.
- phowat 12y agoBut still happens, happened to me when I turned 18 in 2004. Even though I was in college and already working as an intern, I only managed to get out because I have an uncle who is a navy official.