Who was this person?
A bacteriologist of the Meiji to early Shōwa eras. Born to a farming family in Fukushima, he badly burned his left hand as a small child; surgery that restored its use inspired him to study medicine. After Kitasato Shibasaburō’s Institute for Infectious Diseases he worked at the Rockefeller Institute in the United States and became world-famous for research such as his work on syphilis. He died in Accra, West Africa, while researching yellow fever.
| Name | Noguchi Hideyo (野口英世) |
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| Born–died | 1876 – 1928 |
| Period | Meiji–Taishō |
| Birthplace | Sanwa village, Yama District, Fukushima (now Inawashiro) |
| Also known as | Noguchi Seisaku (birth name) |
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Born into a farming family near Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima. His childhood name was Seisaku.
As a small child he fell into the hearth and badly burned his left hand, leaving his fingers fused.
Surgery restored movement to his fingers, and, struck by what medicine could do, he resolved to become a doctor.
He studied in Tokyo and passed the medical licensing examination.
He worked at Kitasato Shibasaburō's institute for infectious diseases and changed his name to Hideyo.
He went to America and began research under Simon Flexner at the University of Pennsylvania.
He moved to the Rockefeller Institute in New York and threw himself into research.
He found the syphilis pathogen in patients' brains, gaining worldwide fame.
He made a brief return to Japan and was reunited with his mother Shika.
He went to Ecuador in South America and began research on yellow fever.
He went to Accra (Ghana) in Africa to study yellow fever.
He caught yellow fever himself during his research and died in Accra.
A. A bacteriologist of the Meiji to early Shōwa eras. Born to a farming family in Fukushima, he badly burned his left hand as a small child; surgery that restored its use inspired him to study medicine. After Kitasato Shibasaburō’s Institute for Infectious Diseases he worked at the Rockefeller Institute in the United States and became world-famous for research such as his work on syphilis. He died in Accra, West Africa, while researching yellow fever.
A. Period: Meiji–Taishō. Born in 1876, died in 1928.
A. Noguchi Hideyo was born in Sanwa village, Yama District, Fukushima (now Inawashiro).
A. Noguchi believed yellow fever was caused by a bacterium and produced a vaccine, but the true cause is a virus, invisible under the microscopes of his day. He went to Africa to confirm his findings, caught yellow fever himself and died in 1928.
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