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Top 10 Astonishing Facts about Peter Doherty


 

Peter Doherty born 12 March 1979is an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist. He is best known for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he formed with Carl Bar芒t in 1997. His other musical projects are indie band Babyshambles, Peter Doherty, and the Puta Madres. 

1. Peter Doherty’s other achievement 

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In extension to the Nobel Prize, Peter also shared the Paul Ehrlich Prize (Germany), the Gairdner International Award (Canada), and the Lasker Award for Basic Science (USA) with Rolf Zinkernagel.

Peter鈥檚 research had been supported by competitive grants from the National Institutes of Health in the US, the National Health and Medical Research Council institutional funding, and the Australian National University. Peter is a Fellow, or Foreign Associate, of the Australian, UK, US, and Russian Academies of Science, and the French, US, UK, and Australian Academies of Medicine.

He is also a Fellow of numerous professional societies, has been awarded more than 20 Honorary Doctorates, and has published some 500 research papers and reviews. He was Australian of the Year and received a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1997, is listed as a living National Treasure, had his face on a postage stamp, and has research fellowships, a street, and two buildings (in Edinburgh and Melbourne) named after him. 

2. A wonder how Doherty got interested in Biological Sciences

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Doherty became interested in disease partly through talking with his elder cousin, Ralph Doherty, who was working as a virologist. And then when he went to an Open Day at the Vet School at the University of Queensland he decided that he’d like to be a vet.

3. A Nobel Laureate? Far from it, Peter Doherty fathomed 

Not at all, Doherty was going to save the world by helping to produce more food by being an agricultural vet. We then might wonder what then happened. By the time peter had qualified as a vet, he realized that food production was more a matter of agricultural economics and politics than of cows and sheep.

Peter had to work for the Queensland Government for a few years. He was bonded to them in return for a time at University. And then became interested in virology and immunology through reading the books of Sir Macfarlane Burnet, another Australian Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology he knew by then that ‘cat and dog’ vetting was not really for him.

4. Peter Doherty’s other works 

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In 2007, Peter Doherty featured 14 of his paintings in an exhibition at London’s Bankrobber Gallery. Next year, he showcased another exhibition titled, ‘Art of the Albion’ at Galerie Chappe in Paris. He also gained praise for his modeling assignment done for the fashion campaign of Roberto Cavalli’s Fall in 2007/2008.
 
He played the lead role in Sylvie Verheyde’s movie, ‘Confession of a Child of the Century’ based on ‘La Confession dun Enfant du Si猫cle’, an autobiographical novel by Alfred de Musset. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, in 2012.
 
5. Doherty Nobel price
Peter Doherty, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.
 
Doherty was Australian of the Year in 1997 and has since been commuting between St Jude Children鈥檚 Research Hospital in Memphis and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne.
 
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity is named in his honor, and the institute is leading lots of research into COVID-19 in Australia.
 
6. Doherty’s drug abuse and legal problems

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Doherty had been repeatedly arrested for drug offenses that arise from drug misuse, such as driving under the influence, car theft, and driving with a suspended license.
 
He pleaded guilty to possession of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis, and ketamine. His addictions have resulted in jail time and multiple trips to rehabilitation facilities.
 
7.  Accusation towards Doherty regarding his dogs savaging a neighbor’s cat to death

Peter Doherty’s accusations of not intervening to prevent his two husky dogs from savaging a neighbor’s cat to death, Is alleged to have let his pets off their leash while taking a stroll in Margate on a Monday morning, shortly before they attacked and killed a neighbor’s eight-year-old old rescue cat, named Archie.

According to Archie鈥檚 owner, retired nurse Penny Ward, the star鈥檚 dogs shook her cat 鈥渓ike a rag doll for ten minutes鈥� as Doherty failed to act.

8. Inquisitive as Doherty’s motivation

Conceptually driven research is what is likely to yield some of the biggest benefits, Doherty said. But with this stuff, you can’t be sure where it will end up. Real curiosity-legwork cannot be confined by a short-time horizon and it doesn’t guarantee an outcome.
 
Plenty of research leads up blind alleys. But one has to be aware that those blind alleys are there to find the right pathway. Of course, that doesn’t mean one doesn’t need applied research, it’s essential, but one needs to get the balance right between the two. Many governments, with their short time horizons, tend to favor the applied side too much. When asked about the qualities needed to be a successful researcher, Doherty listed persistence and the need to be absorbed in what you do.
 
One also needs to have an open mind and be prepared to drop one line of inquiry and follow another if it looks interesting. They never set out to make their discovery and weren’t aiming in that direction at all. But when they found something unexpected followed it. In summary of his approach, he said he liked the complexity and was always delighted by the unexpected.
 
Sentiments often made  Doherty Intellectually curious,  match the beat of my room, and have little interest in competing races. Few people are working in the area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, too little funding, too many problems, and too little time.”

 

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