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Hideyo Noguchi
Hideyo Noguchi
Born	November 24 1876(1876-11-24) Inawashiro, Fukushima prefecture
Died	May 21 1928 (aged 51)
Nationality	Japan
Field	bacteriology
Known for	syphilis Treponema pallidum

This is a Japanese name; the family name is Noguchi.

Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世 or Noguchi Hideyo) (November 24, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Noguchi Seisaku, was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent for syphilis, in 1911.

Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the age of one, he severely burned his left hand. Noguchi rose above his situation and with the help of his mother and teachers became a medical doctor. In 1900, he came to the U.S.

and worked at the University of Pennsylvania, and later at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research. Noguchi traveled extensively in Central America and South America to do research for a vaccine for yellow fever and to research Oroya fev