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. His discoveries led him to gain international recognition and become one of the first Japanese scientists to gain global acclaim and accolades with his obituary being featured in The New York Times, granted numerous awards from foreign dignitaries, and nominated for a Nobel prize in medicine. Noguchi broadened the knowledge of syphilis and its diagnosis and contributed to the long term understanding of neurosyphilis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideyo Noguchi has received more than 435,637 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Hideyo Noguchi is the 215th most popular biologist (down from 207th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Japan (up from 467th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 215 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Reinhold Forster, Thomas Browne, Wilbur Scoville, Tomitaro Makino, Joseph Banks, and Hans Driesch. After him are Michael W. Young, Desmond Morris, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Stephan Endlicher, Albert von Kölliker, and Roberto de Visiani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 53. Before him are Fevzi Çakmak, Tomáš Baťa, Anna de Noailles, August Sander, Nicola Romeo, and Natalie Clifford Barney. After him are Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Joseph Meister, Edvard Eriksen, Tatyana Afanasyeva, and Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria. Among people deceased in 1928, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 38. Before him are Lala Lajpat Rai, Jan Toorop, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Narayana Guru, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, and Ebenezer Howard. After him are Pavel Axelrod, Alvin Kraenzlein, Edward Walter Maunder, Hannah Chaplin, Léon Duguit, and José Sánchez del Río.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 458 out of 6,245. Before him are Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Rei Kawakubo (1942), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Emperor Takakura (1161), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), and Morihiro Hosokawa (1938). After him are Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009), Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Shunichi Kumai (1910), and Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Japan

Among biologists born in Japan, Hideyo Noguchi ranks 4. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), and Tomitaro Makino (1862). After him are Motoo Kimura (1924), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Akira Miyawaki (1928), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Akira Endo (1933), and Bunzō Hayata (1874).

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