Peter Charles Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996, announced October 7, 1996. Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel, “for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”. Peter C. Doherty: born 1940, Brisbane, Australia. Rolf M. Zinkernagel: born 1944, Basel, Switzerland. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).