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Man receiving a medal from another man.

Professor Brian Schmidt receives the Nobel Prize for Physics from Sweden's King Carl Gustaf. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2011, Photo: Frida Westholm.

Professor Peter Doherty shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel in 1996 for their discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells.

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Scientist with microscope

Sir John Eccles. Image: ANU Archives.