“for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”
Rolf M. Zinkernagel is a Swiss immunologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell-mediated immune defence. His research with Peter C. Doherty showed how T cells recognize virus-infected cells in the context of major histocompatibility complex molecules.
- Field
- Medicine · Immunology
- Lifespan
- 1944–