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By Atsushi Kita. Translated by Peter Durfee. 252 pp., illustrated. Tokyo, Kodansha International, 2005. $25. ISBN 4-7700-2355-3.

Although more than 100 biographies of Hideyo Noguchi (1876–1928) have been published in Japanese, this book is the first one to be translated into English. As a Japanese microbiologist and immunologist, I think that Peter Durfee has produced an excellent translation of this chronicle of Noguchi's life, which was originally written in Japanese by Atsushi Kita and published in Japan in 2003.

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View larger version (52K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Hideyo Noguchi. Courtesy of Kodansha International.

 
Noguchi is widely known in Japan as one of the country's greatest medical scientists. In fact, he was recently honored once again when the government put his portrait on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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