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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 who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideyo Noguchi has received more than 402,186 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Hideyo Noguchi is the 208th most popular biologist (down from 202nd in 2019), the 469th most popular biography from Japan (down from 452nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Biologist.

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  • 56.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 208 out of 841. Before him are Henrietta Lacks, Waldemar Haffkine, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Jérôme Lejeune, Albert von Kölliker, and Robert Gallo. After him are Adam Afzelius, David Baltimore, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Willi Hennig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 59. Before him are Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Walter Sydney Adams, Joseph Meister, Julio González, and Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria. After him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Ettore Bastico, Edvard Eriksen, Nicola Romeo, and Josef Hofmann. Among people deceased in 1928, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 38. Before him are Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Jan Toorop, Pavel Axelrod, Narayana Guru, José Sánchez del Río, and Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud. After him are Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Léon Duguit, Antonio Abetti, Adolphe Appia, Alvin Kraenzlein, and Otto Nordenskjöld.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 469 out of 6,048. Before him are Junji Kawano (1945), Ken Takakura (1931), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), Emperor Go-Ichijō (1008), and Masaaki Hatsumi (1931). After him are Eisai (1141), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Saichō (767), Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), and Hiroto Muraoka (1931).

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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 Motoo Kimura (1924), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Ryuta Kawashima (1959).

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