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2 unusual facts about Hideyo Noguchi


9964 Hideyonoguchi

It was later renamed "Hideyonoguchi" after Hideyo Noguchi, a bacteriologist who made important advances in medicine working at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Coxiella burnetii

The first description of what may have been Coxiella burnetii was published in 1925 by Hideyo Noguchi, but, since his samples did not survive, it remains unclear as to whether it was the same organism.



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