Nobel Laureate Robin Warren -- A Couple of Comments. (October 17, 2005)

    Pathologist Robin Warren, now 68, together with Barry Marshall, was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on October 4. He give an interview to Time magazine last week.

    Just a couple of excerpts:

Warren and Marshall in Perth   Credit: NEWSPIX

Time: Was it ever your ambition to win a Nobel Prize?

 

Warren: This subject first came up a bit after Barry and I published our first major work in 1984. Barry was in my laboratory one afternoon and he said, "You know, I think we're really on to something, Robin. I reckon we might get a Nobel Prize out of this." I told he not to be bloody silly.

 

Time: You've been portrayed as the quiet one and Marshall as the extravert.

 

Warren: I think that's a fair summary. I met Barry in 1981 when he was looking to join a research project and [the hospital's chief of gastroenterology], trying to be funny more than anything, suggested he see the crackpot downstairs who's trying to prove bacteria cause gastritis. He was the first person from the clinical world who'd ever wanted to see my work.