Sample jar · Welcome to the Nobel Prize Laureate Collection

ID-nummer

2005.002.004

Titel

Sample jar

Objektkategori

Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller

Publik beskrivning

It was long thought that stress was the main cause of gastric ulcers. Barry Marshall had a different theory. He suspected a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, that colleague Robin Warren had discovered in peptic ulcer patients. He was unable to prove it, however, and his theory met with resistance. Facing such opposition, Marshall decided to experiment on himself. After drinking Helicobacter pylori in a broth solution from the sample jar seen here, he contracted a serious infection. This proved his theory to be correct.

Barry Marshall donated the sample jar to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2005.

Pristagare

Barry J. Marshall

Provenance

532 Nobel Museum Temporary