If I could meet any scientist who would it be? At first I thought Sylvia Earle, the former chief scientist for the U.S. NOAA and the woman who led the first team of all female "aquanauts." As amazing she really is for all her hard work and research I chose someone very different. This man had some crazy courage to do the unexpected but it won him a Noble Prize years later. Barry Marshall takes the cake for me and I would definitely be happy to meet this guy. His crazy courage was how out of frustration of trying to infect piglets and failing each time he decided to drink the petri dish of bacteria of which he developed H. pylori which was what he was trying to link to the development of gastritis and ulcers. He and his collaborator were convinced that H. pylori was the cause of peptic ulcer and gastric cancer but many researchers were very skeptical of their theory. I guess that is why I really want to meet this man, although everyone was against them and their ideas he kept going and believed in his own work. It took him many years but eventually they completed their work and earned the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. It's tough out in the big bad world of science and I would love to ask him for advice and hear stories of his struggle to the top.
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