Marshall A. Barber

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

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. "Bacteriology To The Future". KU History. 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
7. The Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas. 1916.
8. 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.