2005

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Credits and References for the 2005 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine Scientific Advisers, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Bo Angelin, Medicine Bertil Hamberger, Surgery Göran K. Hansson, Medicine, Chair of the Nobel Committee Hans Jörnvall, Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Staffan Normark, Microbiology Olof Nyrén,…

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Biographical

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892. At the time I was born my father was 19 years old and in the…

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005   The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Thanks to this pioneering discovery, peptic ulcer…

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