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Kitasato

American  
[kee-tah-sah-taw] / ˈki tɑˈsɑ tɔ /

noun

  1. Shibasaburo 1852–1931, Japanese bacteriologist.


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The firm has been working with Kitasato University, a medical university in Tokyo.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2022

The Kitasato University group received the physics Ig for their insights.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2014

While these studies were under way another developmental problem was being attacked in a neighboring room of the laboratory by Professor Kitasato, of the University of Tokio, Japan.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

And it may also be here mentioned that the connection between bubonic plague and rats, and the fleas that infest them, was discovered by the Japanese scientist, Kitasato.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas

The bacillus, which was isolated by Kitasato, the Japanese bacteriologist, in 1889, is found everywhere in soil, hay dust, floors, on old nails, especially on the floors of old wooden slaughter-houses.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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