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Also Known As Noguchi Seisaku
Born November 24, 1876 • Japan
Died May 21, 1928 (aged 51) • Accra
Subjects Of Study Carrión disease • Treponema pallidum • paresis

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Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
Kitasato Shibasaburo, c. 1928.
Kitasato Shibasaburo
Japanese physician and bacteriologist
Shiga Kiyoshi
Japanese bacteriologist
David Bruce
British physician
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Alice Evans
American scientist
Yersin, Alexandre
Alexandre Yersin
French bacteriologist
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Sir Almroth Edward Wright
British bacteriologist and immunologist
Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky
Russian microbiologist
Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and bacteriologist
Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian psychiatrist
Emil von Behring, 1914.
Emil von Behring
German bacteriologist