Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Yersin

male, deceased (1943)
Lavaux, Swiss, bubonicplague, pasteur institute, French, bacteriology
Alexandre Emile John Yersin (September 22, 1863-March 1, 1943) was a French-Swiss physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he...
Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks

female, 54 years old
Australian women writer, Sydney University, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Civil War, Balkans, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner…plague, bubonicplague
Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) is an Pulitzer Prize-winning, Australian-American journalist and author.
Shiro Ishii

Shiro Ishii

male, deceased (1959)
bubonicplague, World War I, sino-japanese war, anthrax, biological warfare, medicine
Microbiologist Shiro Ishii was the Lieutenant General of Unit 731, a biological-warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese...

Paul-Louis Simond

male, deceased (1947)
Biologist, bubonicplague, pasteur institute, French, bacteriologist, botany
Paul-Louis Simond (July 30, 1858 - 1947) was a French bacteriologist who was born in Beaufort-sur-Gervanne. He studied medicine in Bordeaux and...
Rupert Blue

Rupert Blue

male, deceased (1948)
University of Maryland, Surgeons General of the United States, University of Virginia alumni, University of Maryland, Baltimore alumni, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Surgeon General of the United States…bubonicplague
Rupert Blue (1868-1948) was Surgeon General of the United States from 1912 to 1920. Rupert Blue was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, on May...
William Gilbert

William Gilbert

male, deceased (1603)
Elektron, electrical engineering, magnetism, New Latin author, James VI and I, College of Physician…bubonicplague, plague
William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd (Colchester, England, May 24, 1544 - London, England, November 30, 1603) was an English physician and a...
John Graunt

John Graunt

male, deceased (1674)
Fellow of the Royal Society, English, Royal Society, Actuarial science, jaundice, Demography…bubonicplague
John Graunt (April 24,1620-April 18, 1674) was one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Born in London, Graunt,...
Thomas C. Butler

Thomas C. Butler

male, 68 years old
Texas Tech University faculty, Texas Tech University, medical researcher, cholera, Fraud, National Academy of Sciences…bubonicplague
Thomas Campbell Butler, M.D., is an American scientist specializing in infectious diseases including cholera and bubonic plague at Texas Tech...
Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

male, deceased (1348)
Tuscan painter, Palazzo Pubblico, Italian, Gothic painter, florentine, Death from bubonic plague…bubonicplague
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati; c. 1290 - June 9, 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between...
Kitasato Shibasaburo

Kitasato Shibasaburo

male, deceased (1931)
Biologist, bubonicplague, Tuberculosis, bacteriology, bacteriologist, vaccination
was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894,...