2004 Keith Murdoch Oration
Human Knowledge in the Age of Information
Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed scientist, Professor Peter Doherty delivered the 2004 Keith Murdoch Oration on Thursday 4 November. He spoke about the importance of large public libraries and their role in acquiring, archiving, processing and providing access - onsite and online - to information that promotes the pursuit of lifelong learning, wisdom and knowledge.
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Professor Peter Doherty is a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and a Burnet Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council. His research is mainly in the area of defence against viruses. He has led substantial research in viral immunology at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia and also carries out his work at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Professor Doherty spends much of his time promoting the cause of biomedical research and education. He regularly devotes time to delivering public lectures and writing articles for newspapers and magazines.
In 1996 Professor Doherty shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel for their discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells, and in 1997 he was named Australian of the Year.
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