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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996

 

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996
The Nobel Assembly at The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1996 jointly to Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel, for their discoveries concerning "the specificity of the cell mediated immune defense".
Peter C. Doherty
Rolf M. Zinkernagel

 

Contents:
Introduction » Our Immune System » Their Key Experiment and Results » Clinical Implications » Other Resources »
These pages are based on material from the 1996 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Poster.
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