1. Barry James Marshall was born on 30 September 1951 and is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia.
22 Facts About Barry Marshall
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Barry Marshall was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and lived in Kalgoorlie and Carnarvon until moving to Perth at the age of eight.
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Barry Marshall's father held various jobs, and his mother was a nurse.
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Barry Marshall attended Marist College, Churchlands for his secondary education and the University of Western Australia School of Medicine, where he received a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1974.
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Barry Marshall married his wife Adrienne in 1972 and has four children, a son and three daughters.
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In 1979, Barry Marshall was appointed Registrar in Medicine at the Royal Perth Hospital.
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Barry Marshall met Dr Robin Warren, a pathologist interested in gastritis, during internal medicine fellowship training at Royal Perth Hospital in 1981.
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Barry Marshall was surprised when, only three days later, he developed vague nausea and halitosis, due to the achlorhydria.
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Barry Marshall held a Burnet Fellowship at the University of Western Australia from 1998 to 2003.
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In 2007, Barry Marshall was appointed Co-Director of The Barry Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training, founded in his honour.
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Barry Marshall accepted a part-time appointment at the Pennsylvania State University that same year.
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Barry Marshall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.
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In 1985, Barry Marshall showed by self-administration that this bacterium, now called Helicobacter pylori, causes acute gastritis and suggested that chronic colonisation directly leads to peptic ulceration.
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The work of Barry Marshall has produced one of the most radical and important changes in medical perception in the last 50 years.
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Barry Marshall was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Science in 1995 and the Buchanan Medal in 1998.
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Barry Marshall was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Life Sciences in 1999; the Keio Medical Science Prize in 2002; and the Australian Centenary Medal and Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture in 2003.
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Barry Marshall was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007.
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Barry Marshall was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Oxford in 2009.
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Barry Marshall was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2015.
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Barry Marshall was awarded the honour of Western Australian of the Year in 2006.
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Barry Marshall was awarded The University of Oxford honorary Doctor of Science degree in 2009.
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Barry Marshall is the Ambassador for Life Sciences for Western Australia.