Shomatsu Yokoyama Explained

Shomatsu Yokoyama
Birth Date:1913
Death Date:1992
Nationality:Japanese
Field:physicians
Known For:refused to conduct medical experiments on humans

was a Japanese physician. During the Second World War, he disobeyed orders to conduct inhumane experiments on living human beings.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Suenaga. Keiko. Sep 2008. Shomatsu Yokoyama, a physiologist who refused to conduct experiments on living human bodies. Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi. Journal of Japanese History of Medicine. 54. 3. 239–48. Japan. 0549-3323. 19244742 .