Barry Marshall
b. 1951 · Australia · Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2005
Drank the bacterium to prove ulcers are infectious, not stress.
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- Vincent Felitti
1935 · Public Health, Functional Medicine
Both overturned settled aetiology by taking patient histories seriously against consensus.
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