Professor Peter Doherty is an Australian immunologist and pathologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 with Rolf Zinkernagel of Switzerland for their discovery of how the body’s immune system distinguishes virus-infected cells from normal cells. After leading a research group at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania (1975–1982), Professor Doherty headed the department of experimental pathology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra(1982-1988) and served as chairman of the department of immunology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee (1988 -2001). At present, he is still the Michael F Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research. In 2002, he joined the faculty of medicine at the University of Melbourne, and starting from 2014, he has been working at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture between the university and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is the author of many books, including The Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science (2005), Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell Us About Our Health and the World (2012) The Knowledge Wars (2015), The Incidental Tourist (2018), An Insider’s Plague Year (2021) and Empire, War, Tennis and Me (2022).