EEVblog #1201 - Nobel Laureate in the EEVBlog Lab!

Surely the world's only Nobel Laureate electronics hobbyist!
Dr Barry Marshall, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine visits the EEVblog lab to sniff some vintage gear and discuss his Nobel prize winning discovery and treatment for stomach ulcers.
Dr Marshall discovered that Helicobacter Pylori bacteria was responsible for stomach ulcers, and *not* stress!
Along with his love of vintage HP test gear, early Intel processors and vintage Tek scopes!

00:00 - Intro
12:50 - Hobby background and S-100 and CPM computer history
13:50 - Intel MCS-85 microcontroller
17:05 - Nobel Prize money and taxes
19:48 - Differences between Physiology and Medicine
21:00 - Alfred Nobel
24:08 - Bogus treatments for ulcers
25:10 - The different Nobel prizes
26:00 - Obama winning the Nobel peace prize
27:30 - How is the Nobel prize judged?
30:35 - Antibiotics
33:38 - Why do people still die from stomach ulcers?
34:55 - Finding out about winning the Nobel prize
39:50 - Secrecy surrounding the nomination of the Nobel prize
42:41 - Drinking bacteria

#NobelPrize #Medicine #VintageTech

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[Batmule]

This is brilliant.
And the first time I've shared an EEVblog link with my sister (who is a nurse).

[steen]

This guy changed my life. I had been suffering from bleeding ulcer from fourteen. My doc said exactly the same: stress! Fast forward over 25 years and finally my doc says it was found to be a bug!

I actually took the pepto and two other drugs. Six weeks later, no burning pain.

I love this guy...

[erikburman]

Holy S**t Dave! This is one of your best EEVblogs ever! As a physician (pathologist) and electronics hobbyist I was thrilled and amazed to see you bring in one of the major heroes of medicine. Well done!

[DoctorCalabria]

Fantastic! This guy caused a paradigm shift in medicine! Think outside the box and eschew conformity and dogma. A personal hero of mine. Thanks. Barry and Dave

[ashtum]

What a lovely man, different than all doctors i have seen in my life.

[mechanicaltimi]

Dave is among the bright people of the world. I love this because I believe he's a real winner

[nicholasbuchele]

I could listen to this guy talk all day. Great video.

[bugzeye]

Well done Dave, absolutely brilliant guest and a brilliant host.

[BillyLapTop]

Dr Marshall is right about how some individuals get the Nobel Prize based upon one of the committee members suffering from a particular malady.

In 1998 the medicine prize was given to the 3 researchers that figured out how nitric oxide affected the cardiovascular system in such a way that it ultimately led to the creation of Viagra. No doubt a few of the older committee members were thankful for this accomplishment and thusly showed their appreciation with the award.

[daniturn]

Could of listened to Barry talking for hours his story's and knowledge is fascinating as well as being down to earth

[Deliriousintentionsprojects]

I suffered with reflux and ulcers for several decades until last year. I kept hearing the same BS from the doctors, it was stress related.
Last year, I was having intestinal issues for a while and was regularly taking peptobismol a couple times a day. During the same time I was also going to the dentist for a dental implant. I thought the reflux pains were related to my dietary changes and the stress from the pending operation of the dental implant. The dentist prescribed me antibiotics after my dental implant operation. I was taking both pepto and the antibiotics for a little over a week. It wasn't until a couple months later, when I was finished with the implant procedure and was able to eat regularly again, that I noticed I did not have reflux pains any more. I never understood how or why, until now. I looked up Barry's research today and it correlated with my experience.

To this day I still have no problem eating spicy foods such as hot sauce, spaghetti, sausage pizza, tomato paste was the worst, or even drink wine.
It has been a whole new culinary experience for me since. Now I know why!
Thank you Barry!

[heathwellsNZ]

Gosh, I can only reiterate what has been said many times already in the comments... what an amazing bloke! Considering his academic credentials and life history how down to earth! Thoroughly interesting subject! Cheers Dave for turnin' the camera on and posting!

[hightttech]

Wow. Barry is a great interview. So many fun stories. I forgot all about "ulcers", but your chat triggered memories of the days of "stress ulcers, no spicey food, etc...". Facinating! Thanks Dave.

[itsevilbert]

Thanks Dave (my dad had an ulcer and was cured by Doctor Marshall's research). Drug companies loved selling what was in effect flavoured chalk to suppress symptoms instead of developing an actual cure, because there is so much more profit in servicing a chronic condition, than curing it.

[terminsane]

This is awesome Dave! Bring more people like this on. It shows what electronics enables!

[RevGunn-jqcq]

This by far is the most, coolest guest ever!

[bf]

Thank you for your work and research Dr. Marshall. I have IBS...it’s awful but you and your colleagues give me hope that one day it can be treated effectively. It really means the world to me!

[ZaneDaMagicPufferDragon]

This interview was awesome!!!! I was glued to the screen for the entire thing straight through no breaks!!! Amazing story about how he figured out what was really causing ulcers and stomach cancer too!!!! Give that Dr. an extra Noble Prize for

[jumilifyify]

What a beautiful video, loved it!
So happy to share share with such remarkable people a passion for electronics.

[TheSadButMadLad]

Damn, I thought from the thumbnail that EEVblog had been given a Nobel prize. Still good to see fantastic interview with a top notch scientist.