Shomatsu Yokoyama

Shomatsu Yokoyama
Born 1913
Died 1992
Nationality Japan
Known for refused to conduct medical experiments on humans
Scientific career
Fields physicians

Shomatsu Yokoyama (横山 正松, Yokoyama Shōmatsu, 19131992) was a Japanese physician. During the Second World War, he disobeyed orders to conduct inhumane experiments on living human beings.[1]

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. Japan. 54 (3): 239–48. ISSN 0549-3323. PMID 19244742.


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