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Author Talk with Professor Peter Doherty

15 August 2019 @ 7:00 pm8:00 pm

Free

Professor Peter Doherty was awarded Australian of the year in 1997 and is the first person with a Veterinary qualification to win a Nobel Prize. He has authored several books including The Beginners Guide to Winning a Nobel Prize, The Knowledge Wars and the Incidental Tourist.

 

 

Peter Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Medicine Prize with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discoveries about transplantation and “killer” T cell-mediated immunity, an understanding that is currently translating into new cancer treatments.

The first veterinarian to win a Nobel, he was Australian of the Year in 1997. Still active in research on immunity to influenza, he commutes between St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis and the Peter Doherty Institute at the University of Melbourne, where he now spends most of his professional time.

Apart from his scientific output that can be found on PubMed, he is the author of several “lay” books, including A Light History of Hot Air, The Beginners Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell us About our Health and our World and Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Passionate about promoting an evidence-based view of reality, his most recent book The Knowledge Wars is a “warts and all” view of science for non-scientists, even for people who don’t like science. It also suggests how any thoughtful citizen can bypass the facile propagandists and probe the scientific evidence for and against some of the big issues, like climate change or GM foods.

 

Details

Date:
15 August 2019
Time:
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://ourlibrary.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Whats-On/Events

Venue

Mornington Peninsula Libraries
Vancouver Street
Mornington, VIC 3931 Australia

Organiser

Mornington Peninsula Library
Phone
03 5950 1820
Email
askalibrarian@mornpen.vic.gov.au
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Other

Event type:
Talk
Suitable for:
Everyone
Topic:
Environment and nature, Health and medical, Human body and movement, Innovation and technology
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