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Peter Doherty

Veterinary surgeon and immunologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1996

Australia · b. 1940

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Immunologist who trained first as a veterinary surgeon in Queensland. Shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rolf Zinkernagel for discovering how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells. He has worked at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra, St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, and the University of Melbourne.

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Recorded · On the billboard

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why? Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1996 source ↗

Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 68 other answers →

I tried for a Ph.D. scholarship to work with Cedric Mims, but was told to apply again later because he already had a "scholar" and would take only one student at a time. … The following week a job in the Department of Experimental Pathology at the Moredun was advertized in Nature. We sailed for Britain in early 1967, on a very slow and cheap ship.

Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1996 source ↗

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