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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Age Always Books Born Boundless Car Childhood Curiosity Dad Eight Encouraged Engine Explained Had He Making Many Medical Mother Nursing Reading Suspect Technical Through Well I Was Born

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My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: After Before Book Bought Boy Brothers Chapters Child Children Donated Each Family Favourite Grandfather Had How Interested Interesting Just Old Our Out Pick Projects Seeing Special Things Volume War Were Which World World War World War Ii Would

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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Causing Concept Earth Flat Germ Like Saying Ulcer

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You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

~Barry Marshall

Topics: About Admit Always Ask Eventually Few Find Life Questions Recently Someone Something Stress Want Worried Yes You

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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Bleeding Boost Career Developing Get Going Hoping Research Ulcer

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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Became Caused Century Common Emerged Freud Life More Other Popular Same Same Time Somehow Stress Theories Those Time Tradition Turmoil Ulcer Were 20Th Century

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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Cause Caused Everything Find Nobel Nobel Prize Out People Prize Real Stress Supposedly Tell You

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The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Actually American American People Businessmen Diet Eating Epidemic Giant Good Good Health Health Healthy Immune Likely Make More People Prone Response Sign Strong Ulcer Were Why

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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Always Been Difficult Dramas Medical Medicine Politics Portrayed Practice Some Truth Tv Way

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Scientist

Born: September 30th, 1951

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