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Rumors of a Nobel Prize have been swirling around Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren as far back as 1997-at least in Western Australia, where the two scientists are local heroes, and where I was once a medical writer for the local newspaper in Perth, my hometown. As a joke, Marshall, a gastroenterologist, and Warren, a now-retired pathologist, had even taken to sharing a beer down by the Swan River in Perth every year when the Nobel for medicine was announced...
...Guess who?s having the last laugh? The scientists, who together proved that the vast majority of stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria-not stress, spicy food or alcohol-are officially Nobel Laureates. In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee commented that the pair had fundamentally altered the scientific view of a disease that affects up to five million people in the U.S. each year. Asked how winning the Nobel Prize would affect his future, Warren replied with a West Australian?s typical laconic self-deprecation: "Yeah, we'll have to come to Sweden...
...Writing about work like theirs is usually an uphill battle. Nobel-worthy research can be impenetrable to a lay audience, and the men and women doing it tend to be shy and retiring. Not so these two. Warren, known for his absolute loyalty to the bolo tie, wasn?t afraid to go out on a limb for an improbable idea. Back in 1979, Warren, who was then working at Royal Perth Hospital, observed a spiral bacteria growing in the stomachs of people with gastritis, or inflammation of the stomach. He became the butt of jokes among his colleagues, who knew...
Professor and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya charmed a large crowd gathered at Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) Friday afternoon with a speech detailing her experience as an environmental, social, and political activist...
...recent years, as her movement has spread to other African nations, Maathai has been elected to Kenya’s Parliament, appointed Kenya’s minister for Environment and Natural Resources, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...