Author, Researcher and Lecturer with a Passion for History, Music and Japan
Worldwide Fame and Death in Accra Continued from From Fukushima to Ghana: Noguchi Hideyo, the Peasant Boy Who Made It (2) The years from 1913 to 1915 marked the zenith of Noguchi Hideyo’s career as an internationally recognized scientist. He travelled to Europe for a lecture tour. He received awards…
America and Europe Continued from From Fukushima to Ghana: Noguchi Hideyo, the Peasant Boy Who Made It (1) Again, Noguchi’s friends helped him financially. Once in San Francisco, he took the Union Pacific railway to Philadelphia. He probably did not know it, but among the workers who built this railway…
The Disabled Peasant Boy Who Became a Medical Doctor In a a garden in the grounds of the Korle Bu hospital in the Western part of Ghana’s capital Accra, stands a pedestal with the bust of a man with bushy hair and a moustache, wearing a jacket and tie. ‘Noguchi…