Kitasato Shibasaburō
Japanese physician and bacteriologists
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō 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. Wikipedia
Born: January 29, 1853, Oguni, Kumamoto, Japan
Died: June 13, 1931 (age 78 years), Tokyo, Japan
Education: Humboldt University of Berlin (1885–1891) and Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo (1875–1883)
Academic advisor: Robert Koch
Children: Zenjiro Kitazato
Parents: Korenobu Kitasato