Mutsuo Sugiura

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Mutsuo Sugiura (杉浦 睦夫, Sugiura Mutsuo; March 13, 1918 – August 26, 1986) was a Japanese engineer who developed the first gastro-camera, a device that lets doctors look inside the digestive tract. This early camera helped create today’s esophagogastroduodenoscope. His work was featured in an NHK documentary, Project X: Challengers: The Development of a Gastro-camera Wholly Made in Japan. Sugiura graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University in 1938 and joined Olympus Corporation. While at Olympus, he built the first esophagogastroduodenoscope in 1950. He died in 1986 at age 68.