{{nihongo|'''Noboru Iwamura'''|岩村 昇|Iwamura Noboru|extra=May 26, 1927 – November 27, 2005}} was a Japanese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine. He was the only survivor, amongst eighty high school classmates, of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing. This experience led him to resolve to live his life for others.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH |url=http://www.msh.org/blog/2011/12/22/dr-iwamura-inspiration-for-a-generation |title=Dr. Iwamura: Inspiration for a Generation | Management Sciences for Health |publisher=Msh.org |date= |accessdate=2013-09-02}}</ref> Under the UMN program, Iwamura was the first Japanese volunteer to arrive in Nepal, a nation struck with a pandemic of tuberculosis. He spent 22 years helping those living in deprivation and his efforts laid the foundation for the establishment of multiple medical facilities around the area.<ref name="iwamura.com.np">{{cite web |url=http://www.iwamura.com.np/hospital/aboutus.php |title=Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center :: Bhaktapur |publisher=Iwamura.com.np |date= |accessdate=2013-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707012054/http://www.iwamura.com.np/hospital/aboutus.php |archive-date=2012-07-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Back in Japan, Iwamura founded the Peace, Health, and Human Development Foundation in 1980, in an effort to provide technical training to grassroots leaders from Nepal and Southeast Asia. He went on to establish the International Human Resources Institute in 1985, as a means of sponsorship for rural workers to earn master's degrees in Community Development.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation |url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationIwamuraNob.htm |title=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation |publisher=Rmaf.org.ph |date= |accessdate=2013-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531055139/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationIwamuraNob.htm |archive-date=2012-05-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dr. Iwamura was awarded the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding in recognition of his life's calling.<ref name=iwamura-cit>{{cite web |url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/127 |title=Iwamura, Noboru – CITATION |publisher=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation |accessdate=16 August 2013 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306034844/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/127 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Iwamura died from leukemia in 2005.<ref>[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2005/11/28/national/obituary-noboru-iwamura/#.XeeezK2caRs Obituary: Noboru Iwamura]</ref> In 1998, the Dr. Iwamura Memorial Hospital and Research Center was established to carry on his name in Bhaktapur.<ref name="iwamura.com.np"/>
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