Peter Doherty
Peter Charles Doherty AC FRS FAA FMedSci is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. 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.
Peter Charles Doherty AC FRS FAA FMedSci is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. 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.
Recent articles by Peter Doherty
24 April 2023
Integrity and complex systems: The rum rebellion or the shearers strike?
While were acutely aware that the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the underlying integrity of our current economic and financial models, our infinitely greater concern must be with the inexorable progression of climate change. As physicist Richard Feynman said: For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. The realities of physics cannot be moved by the comforting distractions and self-delusion of realpolitik. Can humanity act with the necessary integrity on climate change?