Marshall A. Barber

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Marshall Albert Barber (1868–1953) was a biologist 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 three degrees from Harvard.[6] He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1891, studied for a second bachelor's degree[6] and a master's degree at Harvard, graduating in 1894, and taught botany and bacteriology at Kansas.[7] He earned a PhD from Harvard in 1907[6] 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Pipkin, Alan C. (June 1947). "Review of A Malariologist in Many Lands". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 22 (2): 168. doi:10.1086/395762.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b c d "Bacteriology To The Future". KU History. 5 September 1894. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021.
  7. ^ a b Thompson, Agnes (1916). "Among Others–". The Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas. Vol. 14, no. 6. pp. 172–173.
  8. ^ Altman, Lawrence K. (1998). Who goes first? : the story of self-experimentation in medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 182–183. ISBN 0-520-21281-9. OCLC 37732071.


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