Barry j marshall biography samples

Barry Marshall likes quotes.

Barry j marshall biography samples

Over a bacon and eggs breakfast at the Nittany Lion Inn on a frigid December morning, he peppers the conversation with passages that have inspired him. Not surprisingly (Marshall is, after all, a down-to-earth Aussie) his favorites seem to be those that cut through pomp and pretension.

"The greatest obstacle to discovery," says Marshall, quoting social historian Daniel J. Boorstin, "is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge."

Marshall can lay fair claim to an impressive depth of knowledge, particularly about Helicobacter pylori, a tiny spiral-shaped bacterium covered with whip-like hairs that serve both as its 'legs' and as a high-powered drill.

It was a "research project on the side, something I just fell into" says Marshall, describing how, in 1981 as a young clinical fellow at the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, he had first joined senior pathologist Robin Warren in inves