About: Hashime Murayama
Hashime Murayama (1879–1954) was a Japanese American painter and scientific illustrator. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. Employed by the National Geographic Society from 1921 to 1941, his work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine. During World War II he was interned for being Japanese. Despite this, he worked with George Papanicolaou at Cornell University, creating images of cancer cells that were used to train diagnosticians and prove the effectiveness of the Pap smear as a life-saving cancer screening method.
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