| Year |
Laureate |
Discovery |
| 1912 |
Alexis Carrel (France) |
"in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs" |
| 1930 |
Karl Landsteiner (Austria) |
"for his discovery of human blood groups" |
| 1960 |
Sir Frank Burnet (Australia)
Peter Medawar (United Kingdom) |
"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance" |
| 1980 |
Baruj Benacerraf (United States)
Jean Dausset (France)
George Snell (United States) |
"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" |
| 1988 |
Sir James Black (United Kingdom)
Gertrude Elion (United States)
George Hitchings (United States) |
"for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" |
| 1990 |
Joseph Murray (United States)
E. Donnall Thomas (United States) |
"for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease" |
| 1996 |
Peter C. Doherty (Australia)
Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Switzerland) |
"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence" |
| Information provided by the Nobel Foundation |