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Who did Peter Doherty work with to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
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Rolf M. Zinkernagel
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Peter Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel worked together to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for their discovery of how the immune system recognizes infected cells. Their work showed that the immune system can distinguish between infected cells and healthy cells by recognizing molecules called antigens that are present on the surface of infected cells.
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