Rolf Martin Zinkernagel (January 6, 1944 in Riehen, Basel-Stadt) is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich.
Together with the Australian Peter Doherty he received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells. With this he became the 24th Swiss Nobel Laureate.
