Honors During Noguchi's Lifetime
Noguchi was honored with both Japanese and foreign decorations. He received honorary degrees from a number of universities.
He was self-effacing in his public life, and he often referred to himself with naive objectiveness, as "funny Noguchi;" but those who knew him well reported that he "gloated in honors." When Noguchi was awarded an honorary doctorate at Yale, William Lyon Phelps observed that the Kings of Spain, Denmark and Sweden had conferred awards, but "perhaps he appreciates even more than royal honors the admiration and the gratitude of the people."
- Kyoto Imperial University - Doctor of Medicine, 1909.
- Order of Dannebrog, 1913 (Denmark).
- Order of Isabella the Catholic, 1913 (Spain).
- Order of the Polar Star, 1914 (Sweden).
- Tokyo Imperial University - Doctor of Science, 1914.
- Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, 1915.
- Imperial Award, Imperial Academy (Japan) - 1915.
- Central University of Ecuador, 1919 - (Ecuador).
- National University of San Marcos, 1920 - (Peru)
- Medicine School of Merida - "Doctor Honoris Causa en Medicina y Cirugía", 1920 - (México)
- University of Guayaquil, 1919 - Ecuador.
- Yale University, 1921 - (United States).
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