Science3 Mar 2026/3 min read
The Scientist Who Drank a Beaker of Bacteria
In2005,BarryMarshallwontheNobelPrizeforanexperimentwherehedrankapetridishofH.pyloribacteriatoproveulcerswerecausedbyinfection,notstress.
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In2005,BarryMarshallwontheNobelPrizeforanexperimentwherehedrankapetridishofH.pyloribacteriatoproveulcerswerecausedbyinfection,notstress.
Elizabeth Holmes convinced Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, and the US military that her machine could run 200 tests from a single drop of blood. It couldn't run any.
Fire particles at a wall with two slits. They create a wave pattern. But watch them, and the pattern disappears. Nobody fully knows why.
In 2005, Barry Marshall won the Nobel Prize for an experiment where he drank a petri dish of H. pylori bacteria to prove ulcers were caused by infection, not stress.
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