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Peter Charles Doherty

Nobel Prize history for Peter Charles Doherty based on the award records stored in the World History Database.

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Recorded Nobel Prize awards

1 distinct award entry or entries in the World History Database.

Peter Doherty shares the medicine prize for explaining how T cells recognise virus-infected cells. His experiments showed that immune recognition depends on both a foreign antigen and the host's own major histocompatibility molecules.

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