Barry Marshall
Barry Marshall
Barry James Marshall, AC, FRACP, FRS, FAAis an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pyloriis the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 September 1951
CountryAustralia
I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.