The Road to the Nobel Prize – Lessons from a life with the Helicobacter pylori

Presenter: Barry Marshall

Published: November 2013

Age: 18-22 and upwards

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Tags: nobel,biology,medicine,careers,scientists,prize,research,inspiration,ulcer

Type: Lectures

Source/institution: Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative

In 2005 Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their 1982 discovery that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, causes one of the most common and important diseases of mankind, peptic ulcer disease.  This lecture from  Barry Marshall was delivered during a visit to China as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative