Asteroids named after people called Hideyo

(7504) Kawakita

Hideyo Kawakita (b. 1970) is on the staff at the Gunma Astronomical Observatory. His scientific interests include comets, planets, and formation of our solar system.Discovered 2 January 1997 by T. Kobayashi, Oizumi

(9964) Hideyonoguchi

Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), a bacteriologist from Inawasiro, Fukusima prefecture, made significant achievements at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He died of yellow fever in Africa while researching the disease. Burns he suffered as a child turned him to the study of medicine.Discovered 13 February 1992 by T. Seki, Geisei