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'Peter C. Doherty'

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Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence. The file contains Doherty's curriculum vitae as presented on the official web site of the Nobel Foundation, with a list of his publications up to 2000 and newscuttings on his winning the Nobel Prize.

A version of Doherty's curriculum vitae including personal details has been extracted to file PP/CRI/J/1/7/28/1.

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