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Kitasato Shibasaburō

1853 - 1931

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Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里 柴三郎, January 29 [O.S. 17 January], 1853 – June 13, 1931) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin. Kitasato was nominated for the first annual Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kitasato Shibasaburō has received more than 300,571 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Kitasato Shibasaburō is the 173rd most popular physician (down from 172nd in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Japan (down from 221st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Physician.

Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese bacteriologist who was the first to isolate the bacillus responsible for bubonic plague. He was also the first to identify the bacterium responsible for leprosy.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 173 out of 726. Before him are Andrea Cesalpino, Engelbert Kaempfer, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Charaka, and Frederick Griffith. After him are Mehriban Aliyeva, Michael Stuart Brown, Dominique Jean Larrey, Joseph Murray, Alexander Bogdanov, and Gerhard Armauer Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 25. Before him are Oskar Potiorek, Hans Christian Gram, Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Alphonse Bertillon, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Emil Jellinek. After him are Katharina Schratt, André Michelin, Louise Abbéma, Flinders Petrie, Vladimir Korolenko, and Antonio Salandra. Among people deceased in 1931, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 28. Before him are Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Eugène Ysaÿe, Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Carin Göring, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, and Martinus Beijerinck. After him are Wilhelm von Gloeden, André Michelin, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Thomas Lipton, and Giovanni Boldini.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 258 out of 6,245. Before him are Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Yoshio Okada (1926), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Masaru Ibuka (1908), and Emperor Senka (467). After him are Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kōki Hirota (1878), Emperor Ingyō (376), and Suzuki Harunobu (1725).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 2. Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892). After him are Tasuku Honjo (1942), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Sunao Tawara (1873).

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