Word: noguchi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vivid biography of the late great Hideyo Noguchi who died while seeking the cause of yellow fever in Africa, appeared last week.* It uncloaks the tumultuous little scientist, of whom only intimate friends knew more than that he was born in 1876 to a Japanese peasant, that he eventually reached the U. S. where he produced important discoveries on snake venoms, syphilis, infantile paralysis, rabies, smallpox, yellow fever, that nations gave him kudos...
...Rockefeller Institute, of which he was a member, affects a scientific attitude by shrouding its researchers in their cold reports. For example, scarcely a soul knew that Noguchi was married-to a Manhattan girl named Mary Dardis, whom he called Mazie. She called him Hidey, as he insisted. They lived in a confused menage near Central Park. He would come in at all hours, would sleep but three or four hours (when he was a child he reasoned that brief sleep was the essence of Napoleon's career). Nor did many know why the fingers of his left hand...
...Copenhagen they gave me the Royal Medal. If I add what I got from Spain, I have two foreign decorations. It is said that the Swedish Crown intends to decorate me. . . . I was given audience by two royalties. . . ." He often referred to himself with naive objectiveness, as "funny Noguchi...
Intense, irregular work and living gave him an enlarged heart and diabetes. He was gloomy when he went to Africa in 1927. Mrs. Noguchi remained behind, gloomy too. She still lives in Manhattan...
Trachoma. One more research step and Medicine will be certain that four years ago the late great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered the actual germ of trachoma, contagious blinding eye disease. Drs. William Chris Fimioff and Phillips Thygeson of Denver reported to the Convention that the organism caused trachoma in monkeys. Remains to test it on a human. The test human may be Woo Dak-San, Silver City, N. Mex., Chinese sentenced to be executed for murder. To him last week was suggested a choice and to New Mexico's Governor R. C. Dillon was presented a plea-that...