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Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里 柴三郎, January 29 [O.S. 17 January], 1853 – June 13, 1931) [1] 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 .
The sixth series (series F) notes are currently in circulation, and are the smallest of the three common bank notes, measuring 150 x 76 mm. The ¥1,000 bill features Kitasato Shibasaburō and The Great Wave off Kanagawa. This is also the first series of bank note that features English. It was first issued on 3 July 2024.
The ¥1000 bill features Kitasato Shibasaburō and The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the ¥5000 bill features Tsuda Umeko and wisteria flowers, and the ¥10,000 bill features Shibusawa Eiichi and Tokyo Station. The 2024 series started the printing process from 2021 to 2024.
Kitasato Shibasaburō and Emil von Behring working together in Berlin in 1890 announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum; Von Behring was awarded the 1901 prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.
In response, the Japanese government sent bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburō to investigate the plague. On June 5, Kitasato departed Yokohama on SS City of Rio de Janeiro with a team of 5, arriving in Hong Kong on June 12. [62] On June 14, Kitasato discovered that the bacillus, now known as Yersinia pestis, was the
Saluting aviator on 15 sen stamp from 1942. The Japanese Empire issued its first postage stamps in April 1871. In 1896 the first persons to be depicted on a stamp were Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (1847–1895) and Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (1835–1895) in honor of their role in the First Sino-Japanese War that ended one year earlier.
Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō demonstrate passive immunity, protection of animals from infection by injection of immune serum (1890). Thomas Hunt Morgan identifies a sex chromosome linked gene in Drosophila melanogaster (1910) and his student Alfred Sturtevant develops the first genetic map (1913).
Kiyoshi Shiga attended the Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1896, after his high school studies. [1] It was at the university when he was introduced to Kitasato Shibasaburō, one of Robert Koch's successors, who was a world-famous Japanese scientist studying the bacteriology and immunology of deadly disease at the time. [1]