What major breakthrough in medicine did Peter Doherty achieve?
Discovery of HIV
Immune system research
Invented the MRI
Discovery of insulin
Answer
Peter Doherty is an Australian immunologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ralph M. Steinman in 1996 for their work on the discovery of the immune system's ability to recognise and destroy cells infected with viruses. Doherty's research showed that the body's immune system can distinguish between "self" and "non-self" cells, and that this is essential for the body to fight off infection.
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