Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1944-01-06 in Basel, Switzerland

Gender: male

Field: Swiss immunologist (born 1944)

Biography

Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich. Along with Peter C. Doherty, he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996

Awarded on: 1996-10-07

"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"

Affiliations:

  • University of Zurich, Institute of Experimental Immunology – Zurich, Switzerland
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