Members of the scientific community gathered at the Shine Dome in Canberra to celebrate the work of Professor Peter Doherty, marking the 20th anniversary of his Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Professor Doherty has been a leading researcher in the field of immunology for much of his career and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1996 for his “discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”.
At the event today he was joined by some of Australia’s leading scientists, receiving congratulatory messages from Australian Nobel laureates Professor Brian Schmidt and Professor Barry Marshall.
An advocate for immunisation and Patron of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Professor Doherty also helped to launch the Academy of Science’s booklet The Science of Immunisation: Questions and Answers.
He said he was proud to be a Fellow of the Academy and hoped that Australian science would more prominently feature in discussion within the public domain.
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