Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Rolf Zinkernagel AC
Zinkernagel in 2011
Born	(1944-01-06) 6 January 1944 (age 80) Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Alma mater	Australian National University (PhD, 1975) University of Basel (MD, 1970)
Known for	Cytotoxic T cells
Awards	Ernst Jung Prize (1982) Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1983) Mack-Forster Prize (1985) Gairdner Foundation International Award (1986) Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1988)[1] Christoforo Colombo Award (1992) Albert Lasker Medical Research Award (1995) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1996) AC (1999) FAA [when?]
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	University of Zurich
Thesis	The role of the H-2 gene complex in cell-mediated immunity to viral and bacterial infections in mice (1975)
Website	www.immunology.uzh.ch/aboutus/emeriti/zinkernagel.html
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Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC (born 6 January 1944) 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.^[2][3]