Awards & Winners

Peter C. Doherty

Date of Birth 15-October-1940
Place of Birth Brisbane
(Australia, Queensland, Oceania)
Nationality Australia
Also know as Peter Charles Doherty
Profession Scientist, Researcher, Veterinarian, Immunologist
Peter Charles Doherty AC 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. Zinkernagel was named an honorary Companion. He is also a National Trust Australian Living Treasure. He had a younger brother named Ian and had two parents named Linda and Eric. He skipped a grade in school and entered the University of Queensland when he was 17.

Awards by Peter C. Doherty

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1996


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence)

1995


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For the epochal discovery of MHC restriction of T-cell recognition and the single T-cell receptor altered-self hypothesis.)

1986


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For extending our understanding of the interaction of T lymphocytes with cells bearing foreign antigens.)