BIOLOGIST

Hideyo Noguchi

1876 - 1928

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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 known for his work on syphilis, serology, immunology, and contributing to the long term understanding of neurosyphilis. Before the Rockefeller Institute, he was a research assistant to American physician Silas Weir Mitchell at the University of Pennsylvania laying the foundation to the fields of immunology and serology. He produced one of the first serums to treat North American rattlesnake bites alongside Thorvald Madsen at the Statens Serum Institute. During his research, Noguchi was an early advocate for the wide spread use of antivenoms in the United States before its mass production. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hideyo Noguchi is the 282nd most popular biologist (down from 215th in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from Japan (down from 458th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 282 out of 1,097. Before him are Morten Thrane Brünnich, Sergei Winogradsky, James Rothman, Eduard Rüppell, Nathaniel Wallich, and Johann Hermann. After him are André Marie Constant Duméril, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, John Gould, René Louiche Desfontaines, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 63. Before him are Fevzi Çakmak, Paul Masson, August Sander, Nicola Romeo, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and Edvard Eriksen. After him are André Tardieu, Tomáš Baťa, Prince Harald of Denmark, Joseph Meister, Madeleine Vionnet, and Senjūrō Hayashi. Among people deceased in 1928, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 36. Before him are Myrtle Corbin, Antonio Abetti, Alvin Kraenzlein, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Ebenezer Howard, and Jan Toorop. After him are Francis Preserved Leavenworth, Pavel Axelrod, Lala Lajpat Rai, José Sánchez del Río, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, and Otto Nordenskjöld.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 577 out of 6,245. Before him are Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Takeo Kurita (1889), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), Yosano Akiko (1878), and Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937). After him are Saitō Makoto (1858), Rei Kawakubo (1942), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Murakami (926), and Shūsaku Endō (1923).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 3. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), and Susumu Tonegawa (1939). After him are Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Motoo Kimura (1924), Akira Endo (1933), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Akira Miyawaki (1928), and Tokiharu Abe (1911).

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