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Kitasato Shibasaburō
Japanese physician and bacteriologist
In this Japanese name, the surname is Kitasato.
BaronKitasato Shibasaburō (北里 柴三郎, January 29 [O.S.
17 January], 1853 – June 13, 1931)[1] was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里 柴三郎, January 29 [O.S.
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.[2] Kitasato and Emil von Behring, working together in Berlin in 1890, announced the discovery of diphtheriaantitoxin serum.
Von Behring was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.
Biography
Kitasato was born in Okuni village, Higo Province, (present-day Oguni Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyūshū), the son of Kitasato Korenobu, a village head, and Tei, the daughter of a samurai.
His parents were strict about his education