Physiology or Medicine 1996-2000 (Nobel Lectures Including Presentations Speeches and Laureates Biographies)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: March 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789812380067
Subjects: Honours & decorations; Medicine: General Issues; Reference; Science; Medical; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology; Physiology; Pharmacology
First sentence: Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel are receiving their Prizes for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defense, or to be more precise-they discovered how white blood cells recognized and kill virus-infected cells.