James Stevens (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Waste Reduction) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to note and acknowledge the passing of the late Professor Robin Warren, a Nobel Prize winner, who was educated in my electorate of Sturt. Professor Warren passed away last month after a spectacular contribution throughout his career, culminating in his being jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005 for his pioneering work on peptic stomach ulcers. That work led to treatment of that condition through antibiotics. Somewhat interestingly—at least to me as the member for another Sturt—it was another great Sturt educated Australian, Howard Florey, Lord Florey, who pioneered the development of antibiotics, so Professor Warren's work was a remarkable continuation in a similar field to that of people like the great Lord Florey. I'm very proud of the connection to my electorate of a number of other Nobel Prize winners, including Sir William and Sir Lawrence Bragg, pioneers of the X-ray and winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, and my current constituent JM Coetzee, a very famous author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Vale, Professor Warren. He made an enormous contribution to our nation, and he was a great Australian whom we should always remember as a great Australian hero.