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What year did Peter Doherty win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

  • 1993

  • 2001

  • 1996

  • 2010

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Peter Doherty won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his work on how the immune system responds to infection. Doherty and his colleague, Rolf Zinkernagel, discovered that the immune system can distinguish between infected cells and healthy cells by recognizing molecules called antigens. This discovery led to the development of new vaccines and treatments for infectious diseases.
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