Everything about Kiyoshi Shiga totally explained
(
February 7,
1871–
January 25,
1951) was a
Japanese physician and
bacteriologist.
Shiga was born in
Sendai,
Miyagi Prefecture, though his original family name was Sato. He graduated from the Medical School of
Tokyo Imperial University in 1896 and went to work at the Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases under Dr.
Kitasato Shibasaburo. Shiga became famous for the discovery of
shigella, the bacillus causing
dysentery, in 1897. The bacterium
shigella was thus named after him, as well as the
shiga toxin, which is produced by the bacterium.
After the discovery of
shigella, Shiga worked with
Paul Ehrlich in
Germany (1901-05). After returning to Japan, he resumed the study of infectious diseases with Dr. Kitasato. Shiga became a professor at
Keio University in 1920.
From 1929-31, he was the president of
Keijo Imperial University in
Seoul and was senior medical advisor to the Japanese
Governor-General of Korea. Shiga was a recipient of the
Order of Culture in 1944.
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