Robin Warren, Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Robin Warren
John Robin Warren was an Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate, and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall. The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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June 11
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