Futaki Kenzō

Futaki Kenzō, 1955

Order of Culture, 1955

Futaki Kenzō ( Japanese 二 木 謙 三 ; born January 10, 1873 in Akita ; died April 27, 1966 ) was a Japanese bacteriologist.

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Futaki Kenzō was born as the second son of Higuchi Juntai (樋 口 順 泰; 1843-1916), who came from a family that worked as doctors for the Satake clan . Kenzō was then adopted by the Niki family. He graduated from the medical faculty of Tōkyō University and then worked at the "Tōkyō City Komagome Hospital" (感染 症 セ ン タ ー 都 立 駒 込 病院, Kansenshō Center toritsu Komagome byōin). In 1903 he isolates the Shigella variants "Komagome A, B". In 1905 he continued his education in Munich at the Ludwig Maximilians University under Max von Gruber . In 1909 he became deputy director of the Komagome Hospital and staff at the University of Tōkyō. In 1914 he became an assistant professor and doctor of medicine. That year he discovered Spirillum minus , which causes rat bite fever (鼠 毒症, Sodoku-shō). In 1919 he became an associate professor and director of the Komagome Hospital. From 1921 he was a professor at Tōkyō University.

In 1929 Futaki received the Japanese Academy of Sciences Prize . He worked as a professor at the "Nippon Medical School" (日本 医科大学, Nihon ika daigaku), the "Tōkyō Dental College" (東京 歯 科 医 専, Tōkyō shika sen) and the Nihon Joshi Daigaku . In 1951 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences and president of the Japanese Society for Infectious Diseases (日本 感染 症 学会). In 1955 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and awarded the Order of Culture . He died in 1966 at the age of 93.

Futaki had a track record in bacteriology and was an advocate of unbleached rice (玄 米, Gemmai). He worked not only as a researcher, but also as an educator.

Remarks

1. ↑ Futaki sits in the front row in the middle.
2. ↑ The systematic position of this species is uncertain, since a more detailed investigation of the species was not yet possible.

Web links

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literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Futaki Kenzō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 435.

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