Hideyo Noguchi | |||||
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野口 英世 | |||||
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| Born | November 9, 1876 Inawashiro, Fukushima, Japan | ||||
| Died | May 21, 1928 (aged 51) | ||||
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, US | ||||
| Known for | syphilis Treponema pallidum | ||||
| Scientific career | |||||
| Fields | bacteriology | ||||
| Japanese name | |||||
| Kanji | 野口 英世 | ||||
| Hiragana | のぐち ひでよ | ||||
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Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世, Noguchi Hideyo, November 9, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi (野口 清作, Noguchi Seisaku), was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute. His most known discovery was finding the conclusive link between syphilis in the brain as the cause of progressive paralytic disease. Noguchi established for the first time that psychosis could be caused by an organic agent.[1] He broadened both researchers and patients knowledge of the disease and the long term understanding of the complications of neurosyphilis.[2] In addition, he made contributions to the fields of immunology and serology. Some of his work posthumously has been questioned, such as his misidentification of yellow fever as a bacteria and his pure culture of syphilis were considered irreproducible.
Noguchi became one of the first Japanese scientists to gain international acclaim and recognition for his work being featured in The New York Times and nominated for a Nobel prize in medicine.[3][4]
- ^ Plesset, Isabel (1980). Noguchi and his Patrons. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 130.
- ^ Swaminathan, Srivatsan (May 30, 2024). "Hideyo Noguchi (1876–1928)". Arizona State University - Embryo Project Encyclopedia.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
nominationdbwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Dr. Noguchi is Dead, Martyr of Science". The New York Times. May 22, 1928.