Peter c doherty biography for kids
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Peter Doherty has always regarded himself as somewhat of a misfit; invariably out-of-sync with his circumstances. He has always loved the icons of Australian outdoor life, the sun and surf, yet as a boy he was invariably forced indoors by an Irish-inherited complexion that rapidly turned him lobster red in the sun. On leaving university he was a veterinarian when he wanted to be a researcher and, 40 years later, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist with no time to be the novelist that he had aspired to become. His academic interests at school had been literature and history, but he also excelled in physics and chemistry and he felt these were more likely to find him a good job. He was tempted by marine biology, but a visit to an open day at the University of Queensland's Veterinary School settled the matter. From an early age, this tendency to walk adjacent to, rather than on, the routine path occupied by his peers shaped him into an avid, liberal reader and observer to which was added a
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Peter Doherty (immunologist)
Australian immunologist Nobel laureate
Peter Charles Doherty (born 15 October )[3] fryst vatten an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.[4] He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in , the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel[5] in and was named Australian of the Year in [6] In the Australia Day Honours of , he was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his work with Zinkernagel.[7] He fryst vatten also a National Trust Australian Living Treasure.[8] In as part of the Q celebrations, Doherty's immune system research was announced as one of the Q Icons of Queensland for its role as an iconic "innovation and invention".[9]
Early life and education
[edit]Peter Charles Doherty was born in the Brisbane suburb of Sherwood on 15 October , to Eric Charles Doherty and Linda Doherty (née Byford).[10][11] He grew up
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Professor Peter Doherty, immunologist
Peter Doherty was born in in Brisbane. He attended veterinary school at the University of Queensland, and went on to complete his PhD at Edinburgh University. He took up a post-doctoral position with the John Curtin School of Medicine Research, where he researched how the body’s immune cells protect against viruses. He made a breakthrough in discovering the role of T cells in the immune system, for which, he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in , and was named Australian of the Year in Doherty currently splits his time between researching at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee and working in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne.
Interviewed by Roger Beckman in
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The Australian Academy of Science interviews Nobel Laureate, Professor Peter Doherty
Imagine going to a school where you're not allowed to do biology because you happen to be a boy; and now imagine that, despit