Nobel Prize winner to speak at UQ

Prominent Australian intellectual and Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty will present a public lecture at The University of Queensland on July 27.

The lecture will be held at 8.30pm at the UQ Centre Theatre, Union Rd, St Lucia campus.

The Student Club of St Leo’s College at UQ holds the Sir James Duhig Memorial Lecture annually.

The lecture has been delivered by a number of famous Australians in the past including Prime Minister John Howard, Malcolm Fraser, Lt Gen. Peter Cosgrove, Bryce Courtenay and Peter Holmes á Court.

Vice-Rector (Students) at St Leo`s College Michael Bongers said the Duhig Memorial Lecture is held in honour of the distinguished late Archbishop of Brisbane - a benefactor of the college.

“The event is designed to enhance the cultural dimension of the Student Club activities and to allow the club to make a contribution to the intellectual life of the University,” Mr Bongers said.

Professor Doherty will speak on the cultural development of Australian Society.

Professor Doherty won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1996 for milestone research into cellular immunology and was Australian of the Year in 1997. He was born in Brisbane and educated at The University of Queensland where he qualified as a veterinarian.

Media: Michael Bongers, Vice-Rector (Students), St Leo’s College (07 3878 0611, 0409 199 383, m.bongers@stleos.uq.edu.au) or Elizabeth Kerr at UQ Communications (07 3365 2339, e.kerr@uq.edu.au).