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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 255,468 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Kitasato Shibasaburō is the 172nd most popular physician (down from 138th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 178th 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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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 172 out of 502Before him are Engelbert Kaempfer, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Leonid Rogozov, Dominique Jean Larrey, Anthony Fauci, and Alexander Bogdanov. After him are Erasistratus, Hans Rosling, Andrew Schally, Thomas Willis, Patch Adams, and Charaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 27Before him are Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Hans Christian Gram, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Emil Jellinek, Katharina Schratt, and André Michelin. After him are Vladimir Korolenko, Flinders Petrie, Louise Abbéma, Vladimir Shukhov, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, and Pierre Paul Émile Roux. Among people deceased in 1931, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 29Before him are Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Armand Fallières, Martinus Beijerinck, Nathan Söderblom, André Michelin, and Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta. After him are Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Giovanni Boldini, Vincent d'Indy, Wilhelm von Gloeden, and Shibusawa Eiichi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kitasato Shibasaburō ranks 222 out of 6,048Before him are Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Emperor Ninken (449), Antonio Inoki (1943), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), and Eiji Yoshikawa (1892). After him are Emperor Senka (467), Emperor Hanzei (336), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830), Leo Esaki (1925), and Emperor Seinei (444).

Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

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