Satyu Yamaguti

Satyu Yamaguti (山口 左仲, Yamaguchi Sachū, 21 April 1894 - 11 March 1976) was a Japanese parasitologist, entomologist, and helminthologist. He was a specialist of mosquitoes, and helminths such as digeneans, monogeneans, cestodes, acanthocephalans and nematodes. He also worked on the parasitic crustaceans Copepoda and Branchiura. Satyu Yamaguti wrote more than 60 scientific papers and, more importantly, several huge monographs which are still in use by scientists all over the world and were cited over 1,000 times each.

Education and career

Satyu Yamaguti was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 21 April 1894.

He graduated from Okayama Medical College (1918), studied pathology at Tokyo University (1918-1925) and parasitology at the Institut für TropenKrankten in Hamburg, Germany (1925-1926). He received is MD from Tokyo University in 1926 and was Dr. Sc. of Kyoto University in 1935. He was lecturer in parasitology in Kyoto University (1927-1943), parasitologist at the Naval Institute of Tropical Hygiene in Macassar (then "Celebes" – now Sulawesi, Indonesia) with the Japanese Navy (1943-1944), and special consultant of the Malaria Survey Detachment of the US Army (1946-1950). He become Professor of parasitology in Okayama University Medical School (1950), was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii (1962-1966) and a Graduate Professor of Biology at Tulane University (1968-1969).