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本周公布的诺贝尔医学奖得主——澳大利亚人巴里·J.马歇尔和 J.罗宾·沃伦——在不止一个方面推翻了人们的传统观念。他们证明了绝大多数的胃溃疡是由一种低级的细菌引起的,这种观点在当时曾被斥为荒谬。他们同时也向世人表明,科学要取得进步,科学家就需要享有自由和资金的支持,以使他们的想像力尽情驰骋。让我们先从这两位诺贝尔奖得主的直觉说起。20世纪70年代末,广为世人所接受的医学理论是,胃溃疡是由压力、吸烟和
The Nobel Prize-winning medical scientists, Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren, announced this week have overturned people’s traditional beliefs in more than one respect. They proved that the vast majority of gastric ulcers were caused by a low-grade bacteria that was rejected as absurd at the time. At the same time, they also showed to the world that if scientists want to make progress, scientists will need to enjoy the support of freedom and funding so that their imaginations can go its full way. Let us start with the intuition of these two Nobel Prize winners. In the late 1970s, the widely accepted medical theory was that gastric ulcers were caused by stress, smoking, and