Hideyo Noguchi

This is the amazing Japanese doctor Hideyo Noguchi, who hails from Fukushima.
He went to New York in 1904 to study Spirochaetes and Yellow Fever, and did humanitarian work in Africa, where he himself succumbed to Yellow Fever and died in 1928.
A Japanese man standing at the statue asked me if I was interested in this man and he told me how he still inspires generations with hope in the face of suffering, including during the recent tsunami that affected his home prefecture.
He told me that Hideyo Noguchi probably would have won the Nobel Prize if he hadn't died at the age of 53 years.
And he'a probably right.