Hideyo Noguchi
Noguchi, Hideyo (1876–1928), a Japanese-American bacteriologist. He conducted important studies of the causes of syphilis, trachoma, Oroya fever, and yellow fever. Noguchi was born in Japan. He graduated from the Tokyo Medical College in 1897. In 1899 he came to the United States to study and to teach at the University of Pennsylvania. He became a member of the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York in 1904. Shortly after moving to Africa in 1927 to continue his research into the cause and treatment of yellow fever, he contracted the disease and died.