Today's Birthday, October 15
Today's Birthday, October 15: Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist and Nobel Laureate, (1940 - )
After becoming qualified as a vet, Doherty's 研究 on the human 免疫の system saw him awarded a Nobel Prize in 1996.
Doherty likes to march to the （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 of his own 派手に宣伝する, uninterested in contests or races.
That virtue, and his unquenchable かわき for knowledge and understanding, has led him to become a 運動ing 軍隊 in immunology in Australia and beyond.
Doherty says he always felt like an 部外者.
After a childhood spent nose-深い in 調書をとる／予約するs, Dr Doherty 完全にするd a degree in veterinary science and began 研究ing canine 病気s.
He 完全にするd a PhD in Scotland and returned to Australia in 1970.
In Canberra, Doherty met Rolf Zinkernagel and the pair spent 1973 to 1975 trying to answer how 免疫の systems recognise ウイルスs.
Only in 1996, after １０年間s of 確定／確認s and 解明s by others, did the pair receive wide 承認 for their 目印 findings.
The 研究, for which the pair was awarded a Nobel Prize, had fundamentally changed how doctors and 研究員s considered the human 免疫の system.
Understandably, Doherty won fame 支援する home and, after becoming Australian of the Year in 1997, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
His long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 焦点（を合わせる） remains on the 細胞の 免疫の 返答 in ウイルス 感染 s and continues to 追求する a 解答 to influenza.
He has spent many years splitting his time between Australia and Memphis, Tennessee, where he 作品 at St Jude Children's 研究 Hospital.
He also turned his 手渡す at 令状ing 調書をとる／予約するs, 含むing best-selling "Pandemics" and the 半分-autobiographical "The Beginners Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science".
He is patron of Melbourne immunisation and 感染 研究 施設 The Doherty 学校／設ける, which opened in 2014.
Doherty married microbiology 卒業生（する） Penny Stephens in 1965.
