新紙幣の顔、千円札は北里柴三郎です。The face on Japan's new 1000yen bill is Kitazato Shibasaburo.
思っていたよりも昔の人で、江戸末期の生まれです。He was born in the end of Edo Period, in the latter half of the 19th century, which was before the modernization of our country. 幼い頃は軍人になりたいと考えたり、学問の中では語学に興味があったようです。He hoped to become an army leader as a child, being interested in languages.
医学校では外国人教師の言葉をわずか1年でマスターし、At a medical school in Kyushu, the south western island of Japan, he mastered a language of his foreign teacher in just one year, working as an interpreter for him from the second year. 2年目からは通訳を務めていました。最初は蘭学と語学の勉強のつもりが、He had intended to study languages and state of the art technologies from Europe at first, 優れた教師に会えたことで医学の意義に目覚め、but eventually, he realized the importance of medicine through learning from excellent teachers, then started working with all his energy. 一度決めてからは命を賭けて取り組みました。
ドイツ留学時には、When studying in Germany, 2年ほどで他の学生と交代するはずが、he was supposed to leave in two years for another student, but he stayed there for as long as six years requesting to do further researches. 希望して6年も滞在しました。わがままのようですが、Although it seems that he was selfish in a sense, 時間を惜しんで研究に勤しんだお陰でノーベル賞最終候補に残るほどの成果を挙げました。he accomplished such brilliant researches that he was nominated for the final candidates of the Nobel prize.
東大出身の先輩や上司の間違いを遠慮なく指摘するような率直さがあり、He was so honest and frank as to point out mistakes in his superiors' theses without hegitation. 関係者から憎まれた結果、As a result, those who concerned from Tokyo university came to hate him, preventing his researches from going smoothly, interrupting his plans to launch his own laboratory. 研究生活に邪魔が入ったり、研究所設立の時も苦労することになりました。
ノーベル賞を取れなかったのも、Some critics say that his not getting Nobel prize was partly because the academic field didn't support him for it. その当時日本の学会から応援を受けられなかったことが影響しているとも言われます。その不器用さもまた彼の研究者らしさかもしれません。His honesty sometimes gave him negative impacts, which indicates his integrity as a scientist I suppose.
彼の育てた志賀潔や野口英世なども優れた研究者となった日本の医学の開拓者です。He was also a talented educater to nurture Shiga Kiyoshi and Noguchi Hideyo. もっと評価されるべき人だと思います。His pioneering in the medical field should be recognized more.