Kitasato Shibasaburō
1853 – 1931 · aged 78
Japanese bacteriologist, immunologist
- Born
- 29 Jan 1853 · Oguni
- Died
- 13 Jun 1931 · Tokyo
Life timeline
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- 29 Jan 1853BornBorn in Oguni
- 1892AwardOrder of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class
- 1906AwardOrder of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd Class
- 1908AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1909AwardOrder of the Red Eagle 2nd Class
- 1910AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav
- 1914AwardCommander of the Legion of Honour
- 1931AwardOrder of the Rising Sun, 1st class
- 13 Jun 1931DiedDied in Tokyo
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1853 – 1931).
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
Biography
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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