Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC, FAA (born January 6, 1944) is a Swiss immunologist at the University of Zurich.

Rolf Martin Zinkernagel
Zinkernagel at the Erudite Conclave 2011 in Thiruvananthapuram, India
Born	Rolf Martin Zinkernagel (1944-01-06)January 6, 1944[1] Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland[1]
Nationality	Swiss
Known for	Cytotoxic T cells
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	University of Zurich

He is best known for his discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.^[2] For his discovery, Zinkernagel shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Peter C. Doherty in 1996.^[1]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.^[3]