Kitasato Shibasaburō, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kitasato Shibasaburō

Japanese scientist

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1853

Place of Birth: Oguni, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1931

Profession: physician, professor, biologist, bacteriologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Baron Kitasato Shibasaburo (?? ???, January 29, 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 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.