Hideyo Noguchi

Hideyo Noguchi (野口英世code: ja is deprecated , Noguchi Hideyo, 24 November 1876 – 21 May 1928) was a Japanese microbiologist. He studied bacteria.

He was born in Inawashiro, Fukushima. He worked at the Institute of Infectious Diseases as a doctor. When he was 24, he went to the United States. In 1928, he moved to Ecuador, where there were many cases of yellow fever. He went to find the bacteria that caused it. After arriving there, he was able to identify the bacteria as yellow fever, and developed a vaccine. This quickly reduced the number of people dying of yellow fever in South America. In 1928, while researching yellow fever in Accra, he was infected by yellow fever and died.^[1]

Hideyo Noguchi Media

Hideyo Noguchi's childhood home and fireplace
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Hideyo Noguchi
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Specimens prepared by Hideyo Noguchi
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Hideyo Noguchi getting honorary degre
Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen
Hideyo Noguchi's laboratory at Rockefeller Institute
Hideyo Noguchi at work in his laboratory
Mrs. Noguchi (Mary Loretta Dardis)
Letter from Hideyo Noguchi to his wife Mary Dardis

References

↑ "Great Person of Fukushima". Retrieved 2014-01-21.^{[dead link]}

[1] "Great Person of Fukushima". Retrieved 2014-01-21.^{[dead link]}

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