Marshall elected to National Academy of Sciences

Barry Marshall, who has a visiting appointment as the Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science at Penn State, is among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008. Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, was also among those elected.

More information, from the National Academies website.

Barry Marshall won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with his colleague Robin Warren, for the discovery that the majority of stomach ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori bacteria, and hence can be cured with antibiotics.