Peter Charles Doherty (born 15 October 1940)[3] is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.

[4] He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel[5] in 1996 and was named Australian of the Year in 1997.

[10][11] He grew up in Oxley,[12] and attended Indooroopilly State High School (which now has a lecture theatre named after him).

He and Rolf Zinkernagel, the co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovered how T cells recognise their target antigens in combination with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins.

It houses a group of infection and immunology experts, including Director Professor Sharon Lewin, who are charged with leading the battle against infectious diseases in humans.

[29] They have two sons, Michael, a neurologist working in the United States,[30] and James, a Melbourne-based barrister,[13] and six grandchildren.

[31] He gained a renewed level of fame in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic when he accidentally tweeted the phrase 'Dan Murphy opening hours' instead of performing a web search for it.