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American physician who studied malaria
Marshall Albert Barber (1868–1953) was a
physician who studied
malaria
[1]
[2]
[3] affiliated with the
Rockefeller Foundation and the
University of Kansas . He proposed the technique of
microinjection to clone bacteria.
[4] He developed
micropipette methods in 1904 for
microscopic
renal physiology .
[5] He also worked with the U.S. military on public health issues, offering his advice during both World Wars.
[6] He earned 3 degrees from
Harvard .
[6] He graduated from the
University of Kansas in 1891, received his Master's from Harvard in 1894, taught
botany and
bacteriology at Kansas, and went to the Philippines in 1911. In 1915 he went to
Malaysia with the Rockefeller Foundation.
[7] In 1913 while working in
Manila he may have been the first to discover
mastitis in dairy cattle while experimenting on himself.
[8]
References
^ Barber, Marshall A. (1946).
A malariologist in many lands, by Marshall A. Barber, with a foreword by Paul F. Russell . Lawrence, Kan., University of Kansas press.
^
Jarcho, Saul (March 1947). "Reviewed work: A Malariologist in Many Lands by Marshall A. Barber with a foreword by Paul F. Russell". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . 2 (2): 268–270.
doi :
10.1093/jhmas/II.2.268 .
JSTOR
24619594 .
^ Pipkin, Alan C. (June 1947). "Review of A Malariologist in Many Lands ". The Quarterly Review of Biology . 22 (2): 168.
doi :
10.1086/395762 .
^ Korzh, Vladimir; Strähle, Uwe (2002-08-01).
"Marshall Barber and the century of microinjection: from cloning of bacteria to cloning of everything" . Differentiation . 70 (6): 221–226.
doi :
10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.700601.x .
ISSN
0301-4681 .
PMID
12190984 .
^ Terreros, D. A.; Grantham, J. J. (1982-03-01).
"Marshall Barber and the origins of micropipette methods" . American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology . 242 (3): F293–F296.
doi :
10.1152/ajprenal.1982.242.3.F293 .
ISSN
1931-857X .
PMID
7039350 .
^
a
b
"Bacteriology To The Future" . KU History . 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2022-08-17 .
^
The Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas . 1916.
^ Altman, Lawrence K. (1998).
Who goes first? : the story of self-experimentation in medicine . Berkeley: University of California Press.
ISBN
0-520-21281-9 .
OCLC
37732071 .