Kitasato Shibasaburō

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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About Kitasato Shibasaburō

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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. Kitasato and Emil von Behring, working together in Berlin in 1890, announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum. Von Behring was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.

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Kitasato Shibasaburō's Timeline

1853
January 29, 1853
Oguni, Aso District, Kumamoto, Japan
1931
June 13, 1931
Age 78
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan