National / History | THE LIVING PAST Jul 20, 2019
Hideyo Noguchi: Under the microscope
by Michael Hoffman
Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928) may be Japan's most famous scientist. His face adorns the ¥1,000 bill. His life story is legendary, folkloric.
National Dec 18, 2015
New York archive sheds new light on iconic Japanese disease researcher Hideyo Noguchi
by Toyohiro Horikoshi
In a two-story stone mansion in a quiet neighborhood of the Hudson River Valley, the Rockefeller Archive Center holds a little-known trove of historical documents related to Japanese national figure Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), the Nobel-nominated bacteriologist whose portrait is on the thousand-yen bill. The seven ...
National / Politics Jun 2, 2013
Belgian, Ugandan win Noguchi prize
by Tomohiro Osaki
Two doctors from Belgium and Uganda were awarded the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize on Saturday at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development for their great strides in helping the world combat deadly infectious diseases. Peter Piot, 64, the Belgian director of the London School ...