The winners' guide to the Nobel Prize

On 14 December, the ABC will air a Film Australia documentary called the Winners' Guide to the Nobel Prize.

It follows Dr Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren's journey to receiving the Nobel Prize in Stockholm in 2005.

In 1979, in a modest hospital laboratory in Perth, pathologist Robin Warren first observed a bacterium which survived in the human stomach.

Warren teamed up with gastroenterologist Barry Marshall and together they promoted the thesis that this bacterium, not stress, caused gastritis and stomach ulcers. This was much to the chagrin of the medical world, which at the time distrusted their theory and subjected them to scorn.

The film looks at the lives of Robin Warren and Barry Marshall, their families, peers, work, struggles and their paradigm-shift finding to reveal the massive impact, wonder and excitement of groundbreaking scientific discovery.