Peter C. Doherty - wikipedia Peter C. Doherty For other people named Peter Doherty, see Peter Doherty ( disambiguation ). Peter Doherty FRS AC FMedSci Peter Charles Doherty 15 October 1940 ( 1940 - 10 - 15 ) ( age 77 ) Brisbane, Queensland Nationality Australian Alma mater University of Queensland ( MSc ) University of Edinburgh ( PhD ) Known for Major histocompatibility complex Awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( 1996 ) Australian of the Year ( 1997 ) Leeuwenhoek Lecture ( 1999 ) Scientific career Fields Medicine Immunology Institutions John Curtin School of Medical Research Australian National University Thesis Studies in the experimental pathology of louping - ill encephalitis ( 1970 ) Doctoral advisor G.L. Montgomery J.T. Stamp Website www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1996/doherty-bio.html Peter Charles Doherty, FRS AC FMedSci ( born 15 October 1940 ) is an Australian veterinary surgeon 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. He is also a National Trust Australian Living Treasure. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Doherty 's immune system research was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as an iconic `` innovation and invention ''. Contents 1 Education and early life 2 Research and career 2.1 Awards and honours 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External links Education and early life Doherty was born in Brisbane, Queensland, where he attended Indooroopilly State High School ( which now has a lecture theatre named after him ). He received his bachelor 's degree in veterinary science in 1962 and his master 's degree in veterinary science in 1966 from the University of Queensland. After obtaining his PhD in 1970 from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he returned to Australia to perform his Nobel Prize - winning research at the John Curtin School of Medical Research within the Australian National University in Canberra. Research and career 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 Physiology or Medicine, discovered how T cells recognise their target antigens in combination with major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) proteins. Viruses infect host cells and reproduce inside them. Killer T - cells destroy those infected cells so that the viruses can not reproduce. Zinkernagel and Doherty discovered that, in order for killer T cells to recognise infected cells, they had to recognise two molecules on the surface of the cell -- not only the virus antigen, but also a molecule of the major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ). This recognition was done by a T - cell receptor on the surface of the T cell. The MHC was previously identified as being responsible for the rejection of incompatible tissues during transplantation. Zinkernagel and Doherty discovered that the MHC was responsible for the body fighting meningitis viruses too. His semi-autobiographical book, The Beginner 's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, was published in 2005. A Light History of Hot Air was published in 2007 by Melbourne University Press. In 2012 he published the book Sentinel Chickens. His fourth book The Knowledge Wars was published in 2015. Awards and Honours Doherty was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ( FRS ) in 1987. He is the patron of the eponymous Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture between the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health. It houses a group of infection and immunology experts, including Director Professor Sharon Lewin, who are charged with leading the battle against infectious diseases in humans. This became operational in 2014. He became an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences ( FMedSci ) in 2015. In the same year he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences ( FAHMS ). In April 2017 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria ( FRSV ). Both John Monash Science School and Moreton Bay Boys College have a house named after him. Personal life Doherty has a younger brother named Ian and had two parents named Linda and Eric. Doherty currently spends three months of the year conducting research at St. Jude Children 's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center through the College of Medicine. For the other 9 months of the year, he works in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, Victoria. References ^ Jump up to : Anon ( 2017 ). Doherty, Prof. Peter Charles. ukwhoswho.com. Who 's Who ( online Oxford University Press ed. ). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi : 10.1093 / ww / 9780199540884.013. 13865. ( subscription required ) ^ Jump up to : `` Peter Doherty ''. royalsociety.org. ^ Jump up to : Doherty, Peter Charles ( 1970 ). Studies in the experimental pathology of louping - ill encephalitis. lib.ed.ac.uk ( PhD thesis ). hdl : 1842 / 17153. EThOS 699841. Jump up ^ `` Peter Doherty - Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative ''. Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative. Jump up ^ Lewis, Wendy ( 2010 ). Australians of the Year. Pier 9 Press. ISBN 978 - 1 - 74196 - 809 - 5. Jump up ^ `` It 's an Honour - Honours - Search Australian Honours ''. www.itsanhonour.gov.au. Jump up ^ `` Peter C. Doherty, PhD ''. Jump up ^ Bligh, Anna ( 10 June 2009 ). `` PREMIER UNVEILS QUEENSLAND 'S 150 ICONS ''. Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 24 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017. Jump up ^ Peter C. Doherty publications indexed by Google Scholar Jump up ^ 56489776600 Peter C. Doherty publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. ( subscription required ) Jump up ^ `` The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996 -- Illustrated Presentation ''. Jump up ^ The Beginner 's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize : The Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, 2005 Jump up ^ A Light History of Hot Air ( 2011 ) Jump up ^ Miegunyah Press, accessed 8 July 2014 Jump up ^ `` Interview : Peter Doherty, Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine in 1996 '', in ABC Lateline, 25 August 2015 Jump up ^ `` Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne ''. Jump up ^ `` Report of the Annual Fellows ' Meeting 2015 - The Academy of Medical Sciences ''. www.acmedsci.ac.uk. Jump up ^ `` Fellowship AAHMS -- Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences ''. www.aahms.org. Retrieved 2018 - 06 - 26. Jump up ^ `` Elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Victoria - The Royal Society of Victoria ''. The Royal Society of Victoria. Retrieved 2018 - 06 - 27. Jump up ^ `` House Programs ''. www.jmss.vic.edu.au. Retrieved 2018 - 06 - 26. Jump up ^ `` Moreton Bay Boys ' College School House Program ''. Moreton Bay Boys ' College. Retrieved 2018 - 06 - 26. Jump up ^ `` Peter C. Doherty - Biographical ''. Retrieved 7 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` UTHSC people search ''. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. External links Peter Doherty 's Nobel Lecture Radio Interview from This Week in Science 5 September 2005 broadcast `` Winning a Nobel : easy as wrestling a pig '', by Margaret Wertheim, Cosmos magazine, October 2006 Peter Doherty delivers the opening address at the 2009 Melbourne Festival of Ideas on ABC Fora ( video ) Peter Doherty addresses the Vic Skeptics -- Scepticism, Denial and Ignorance : There is a Difference on YouTube ( video ) Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 -- 1925 1901 Emil Behring 1902 Ronald Ross 1903 Niels Finsen 1904 Ivan Pavlov 1905 Robert Koch 1906 Camillo Golgi / Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1907 Alphonse Laveran 1908 Élie Metchnikoff / Paul Ehrlich 1909 Emil Kocher 1910 Albrecht Kossel 1911 Allvar Gullstrand 1912 Alexis Carrel 1913 Charles Richet 1914 Róbert Bárány 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Jules Bordet 1920 August Krogh 1921 1922 Archibald Hill / Otto Meyerhof 1923 Frederick Banting / John Macleod 1924 Willem Einthoven 1925 1926 -- 1950 1926 Johannes Fibiger 1927 Julius Wagner - Jauregg 1928 Charles Nicolle 1929 Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1930 Karl Landsteiner 1931 Otto Warburg 1932 Charles Scott Sherrington / Edgar Adrian 1933 Thomas Morgan 1934 George Whipple / George Minot / William Murphy 1935 Hans Spemann 1936 Henry Dale / Otto Loewi 1937 Albert Szent - Györgyi 1938 Corneille Heymans 1939 Gerhard Domagk 1940 1941 1942 1943 Henrik Dam / Edward Doisy 1944 Joseph Erlanger / Herbert Gasser 1945 Alexander Fleming / Ernst Chain / Howard Florey 1946 Hermann Muller 1947 Carl Cori / Gerty Cori / Bernardo Houssay 1948 Paul Müller 1949 Walter Hess / António Egas Moniz 1950 Edward Kendall / Tadeusz Reichstein / Philip Hench 1951 -- 1975 1951 Max Theiler 1952 Selman Waksman 1953 Hans Krebs / Fritz Lipmann 1954 John Enders / Thomas Weller / Frederick Robbins 1955 Hugo Theorell 1956 André Cournand / Werner Forssmann / Dickinson W. Richards 1957 Daniel Bovet 1958 George Beadle / Edward Tatum / Joshua Lederberg 1959 Severo Ochoa / Arthur Kornberg 1960 Frank Burnet / Peter Medawar 1961 Georg von Békésy 1962 Francis Crick / James Watson / Maurice Wilkins 1963 John Eccles / Alan Hodgkin / Andrew Huxley 1964 Konrad Bloch / Feodor Lynen 1965 François Jacob / André Lwoff / Jacques Monod 1966 Francis Rous / Charles B. Huggins 1967 Ragnar Granit / Haldan Hartline / George Wald 1968 Robert W. Holley / Har Khorana / Marshall Nirenberg 1969 Max Delbrück / Alfred Hershey / Salvador Luria 1970 Bernard Katz / Ulf von Euler / Julius Axelrod 1971 Earl Sutherland Jr. 1972 Gerald Edelman / Rodney Porter 1973 Karl von Frisch / Konrad Lorenz / Nikolaas Tinbergen 1974 Albert Claude / Christian de Duve / George Palade 1975 David Baltimore / Renato Dulbecco / Howard Temin 1976 -- 2000 1976 Baruch Blumberg / Daniel Gajdusek 1977 Roger Guillemin / Andrew Schally / Rosalyn Yalow 1978 Werner Arber / Daniel Nathans / Hamilton O. Smith 1979 Allan Cormack / Godfrey Hounsfield 1980 Baruj Benacerraf / Jean Dausset / George Snell 1981 Roger Sperry / David H. Hubel / Torsten Wiesel 1982 Sune Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983 Barbara McClintock 1984 Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985 Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 Stanley Cohen / Rita Levi - Montalcini 1987 Susumu Tonegawa 1988 James W. Black / Gertrude B. Elion / George H. Hitchings 1989 J. Michael Bishop / Harold E. Varmus 1990 Joseph Murray / E. Donnall Thomas 1991 Erwin Neher / Bert Sakmann 1992 Edmond Fischer / Edwin G. Krebs 1993 Richard J. Roberts / Phillip Sharp 1994 Alfred G. Gilman / Martin Rodbell 1995 Edward B. Lewis / Christiane Nüsslein - Volhard / Eric F. Wieschaus 1996 Peter C. Doherty / Rolf M. Zinkernagel 1997 Stanley B. Prusiner 1998 Robert F. Furchgott / Louis Ignarro / Ferid Murad 1999 Günter Blobel 2000 Arvid Carlsson / Paul Greengard / Eric Kandel 2001 -- present 2001 Leland H. Hartwell / Tim Hunt / Paul Nurse 2002 Sydney Brenner / H. Robert Horvitz / John E. Sulston 2003 Paul Lauterbur / Peter Mansfield 2004 Richard Axel / Linda B. Buck 2005 Barry Marshall / Robin Warren 2006 Andrew Fire / Craig Mello 2007 Mario Capecchi / Martin Evans / Oliver Smithies 2008 Harald zur Hausen / Luc Montagnier / Françoise Barré - Sinoussi 2009 Elizabeth Blackburn / Carol W. Greider / Jack W. Szostak 2010 Robert G. Edwards 2011 Bruce Beutler / Jules A. Hoffmann / Ralph M. Steinman ( posthumously ) 2012 John B. Gurdon / Shinya Yamanaka 2013 James Rothman / Randy Schekman / Thomas C. Südhof 2014 John O'Keefe / May - Britt Moser / Edvard Moser 2015 William C. Campbell / Satoshi Ōmura / Tu Youyou 2016 Yoshinori Ohsumi 2017 Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young 1996 Nobel Prize laureates Chemistry Robert F. Curl Jr. ( United States ) Harold W. Kroto ( United Kingdom ) Richard E. 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