other reality checks Peter Doherty won the Nobel Prize for Medicine (immunology) in 1996. He was born in 1940 in Queensland and graduated from the University of Queensland. He shared the prize with Rolf Zinkernagel for the discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells. Their discovery has, in its turn, laid a foundation for an understanding of general mechanisms used by the cellular immune system to recognise both foreign microorganisms and self molecules. The two Nobel Laureates carried out the research for which they have now been awarded the Prize in 1973-75 at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra, Australia, where Peter Doherty already held his position and to which Rolf Zinkernagel came from Switzerland as a research fellow. Other Australian Nobel Prize winners in science have been: Sir William Lawrence Bragg Winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics (X-ray crystallography). Born in 1890 in Adelaide (his father, co-winner Sir William Henry Bragg , taught at the University of Adelaide), Graduated from University of Adelaide. | |
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