Shuntaro Hida is a Japanese physician who was an eyewitness to the dropping of the Little Boy Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He treated survivors as a medical doctor and wrote about the effects of radiation on the human body. The night before the bomb was dropped 28 year old Dr. Hida left the Hiroshima Military Hospital where he was stationed as an army medical officer to attend to a sick child in the village of Hesaka. He was therefore approximately 6 kilometers from ground zero when the bomb was dropped and he looked up and saw the Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft which he described as appearing like a 'tiny silver drop'. He then felt the heat and blast from the explosion and saw the mushroom cloud over the city. As a medical doctor he treated the wounded and saw the short and long term effects of radiation on the human body. After the war he continued to treat atomic bomb survivors for many years and he became the Director of the Hibakusha Counselling Centre. He also sought compensation from the United States government and advocated the abolition of nuclear weapons. 

January 1st, 1917 in Hiroshima Prefecture  /  Died:   Mar 20th, 2017 - aged 100