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Peter C. Doherty

Born

in Brisbane, Australia

October 15, 1940

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Peter Charles Doherty is an Australian veterinary surgeon, immunologist, Nobel laureate and researcher in the field of medicine.

He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel in 1996 and was named Australian of the Year in 1997. In the Australia Day Honours of 1997, he was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his work with Zinkernagel (Zinkernagel was named an honorary Companion). He is also a National Trust Australian Living Treasure.

Doherty's research focuses on the immune system and his Nobel work described how the body's immune cells protect against viruses. He and Rolf Zinkernagel, the co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in P ...more

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	The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize 3.37 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know 3.81 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Their Fate is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World 3.44 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knowledge Wars 3.31 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's the Big Idea?: 30 Years of the Australia Institute by Anna Chang (editor), Alice Grundy (editor), Louise Adler (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Insider's Plague Year 3.42 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell Us About Our Health And The World 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Incidental Tourist 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire, War, Tennis and Me 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Light History of Hot Air 2.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Reliance on ex-cathedra pronouncements that emphasise authority over reason, discovery and evidence is both death to the spirit of truth and enquiry and physically damaging for our species and for our world”
― Peter C. Doherty, The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize

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“Here again is the problem: the scientific community advises practical, responsible steps to ameliorate the situation, but many in the broader public believe that science will deliver miraculous answers that will absolve us from taking those responsible steps. The popular view of science and scientists is, to say the least, conflicted.”
― Peter C. Doherty, The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize

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“What could be more gratifying than to discover, describe and explain some basic principle that no human being has ever understood before? This is the stuff of true science. Those societies that foster and harness that passion will be the prosperous, knowledge-based economies of the future.”
― Peter C. Doherty, The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize

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