Australian researchers believe they've solved a decades-old problem that could ultimately lead to the development of larger and more useful quantum computers.
Nobel laureate Peter Doherty is predicting politicians will be reluctant to reopen Australia next year even as vaccination rates surge and people stop dying of Covid.
The immunologist, 80, renowned for discovering the role of T cells in the immune system, said Australians living through lockdowns were conditioned to the zero Covid strategy. We will get back to a more normal life next year I expect, but it is going to be difficult politically for the politicians to open up because there will be disease circulating and we are so accustomed to the idea that no virus should circulate, Professor Doherty told the ABC s 7.30 program.
Nobel prize winner Peter Doherty on navigating COVID-19 and life in lockdown
Nobel laureate Peter Doherty has had a front row seat to Australia s COVID-19 response. He shares his insights into why the pandemic has been a steep learning curve for everyone, including him. 13 July 2021
It s hard to think of a more towering figure in the Australian scientific community than Peter Doherty.
The laureate professor won a Nobel Prize in 1996 for discovering how our immune cells destroy deadly viruses, which revolutionised the field of immunology.
But it s not just scientific gravitas that s propelled Professor Doherty to prominence during the coronavirus pandemic.