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Rolf Martin Zinkernagel
Rolf Zinkernagel Erudite Conclave medical college trivandrum.jpg
Zinkernagel at the Erudite Conclave 2011 in Thiruvananthapuram, India
Born
Rolf Martin Zinkernagel

January 6, 1944(1944-01-06)[1]
Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland[1]
NationalitySwiss
Known forCytotoxic T cells

Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC, FAA (born January 6, 1944) is a Swiss immunologist at the University of Zurich.

He is best known for his discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.[2] For his discovery, Zinkernagel shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Peter C. Doherty in 1996.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Rolf M. Zinkernagel - Facts". Nobelprize.org. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1996/zinkernagel-facts.html. Retrieved 2014-06-28. 
  2. ↑ "Feodor Lynen - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1964/lynen-bio.html. Retrieved 2014-03-30. 


This person won a Nobel Prize

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