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Rolf M. Zinkernagel
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Person

Rolf M. Zinkernagel

b. 1944

Swiss immunologist (born 1944)

Born
6 Jan 1944 · Riehen
Part ofSwitzerland218 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 6 Jan 1944BornBorn in Riehen
  2. 1981AwardCloëtta Prize
  3. 1982AwardErnst Jung Prize for Medicine
  4. 1983AwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
  5. 1986AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  6. 1987AwardWilliam B. Coley Award
  7. 1988AwardLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
  8. 1988AwardOtto Naegeli Prize
  9. 1995AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  10. 1996AwardCorresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science
  11. 1996AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  12. 1998AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  13. 1999AwardHonorary Companion of the Order of Australia

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1944 – today).

  1. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  2. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  3. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  5. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  6. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  8. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  9. 1956Suez Crisis
  10. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  12. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  14. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  16. 1968Prague Spring
  17. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  18. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  19. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  20. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  22. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  23. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  24. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  25. 1985Schengen Agreement
  26. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  27. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  28. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  30. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  32. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  33. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  34. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  35. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  36. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  37. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  38. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  39. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  40. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring

Biography

Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC (born 6 January 1944) is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich. Along with Peter C. Doherty, he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.

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