Kitasato Shibasaburō
29 January 1853 — 13 June 1931
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō 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.
A memorial on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. This grave stands at coordinates 52, -4.
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