Fujino Tsunesaburō

Fujino Tsunesaburō ( Japanese 藤 野 恒 三郎 ; * January 28, 1907 , † August 15, 1992 ) was a Japanese medic and bacteriologist .

He taught and researched at Osaka University and remained there after completing his career as an emeritus . In 1950, he discovered in the investigation of an epidemic occurring food poisoning that for causative bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus .

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In 1964 he received the Asahi Prize for the discovery and research of the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus .

The Takeda Medicine Prize followed in 1972 , also for the discovery of this bacterium.

In 1986 he was awarded the Osaka City Culture Prize.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Asahi Shimbun: List of previous Asahi Prize winners (Japanese)
2. ↑ List of previous winners of the Takeda Medicine Prize (Japanese) ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ List of previous winners of the Osaka Culture Prize (Japanese)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Fujino is the family name, Tsunesaburō the first name.