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Robert Koch

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Gender Male
Death113 years ago
Date of birth December 11,1843
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Germany
Date of died May 27,1910
DiedBaden-Baden
Germany
NationalityGerman
DiscoveriesMycobacterium tuberculosis
Koch's postulates
Mycobacterium
Anthrax bacterium
Asiatic cholera
Spouse Hedwig Freiberg
Emma Adolfine Josephine Fraatz
Movies/Shows Shake It Up
Northern Comfort
Post Grad
Along Came Polly
Playing Mona Lisa
I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney
Son in Law
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Children Gertrude Koch
Gertrud Pfuhl
Parents Mathilde Julie Henriette Biewand
Hermann Koch
BooksEssays of Robert Koch
Investigations Into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases
The Cure of Consumption: Further Communications on a Remedy for Tuberculosis
The Aetiology of Tuberculosis
Professor Koch on the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Cholera and Water-filtration
Full nameRobert Heinrich Hermann Koch
Influencees Emil von Behring
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Alexandre Yersin
Friedrich Loeffler
Joseph J. Kinyoun
André Chantemesse
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Robert Koch Life story


Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. The bacterium itself was discovered by Filippo Pacini in 1854, but Koch "advanced the theory that bacteria exist as distinct ...

Early Life

Robert koch was born on 11 december 1843 in clausthal-zellerfeld. Germany. His father was a mining engineer and his mother was a teahcer. He studied medicine at the university of gottingen and graduated in 1866.

Career

Koch strated his medical career as an assistant to the german bacteriologist. Rudolf virchow. He took part in the franco-prussian war (1870-71) as a sugreon in the german army. He then moved to berlin. Where he pursued research in bacteriology. He founded the institute for infectious diseases in berlin in 1891.

Important Discoveries

In 1881. Koch discovered the bacterium responsible for causing tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis). He also identified the organisms responsible for causing anthrax. Cholera and dysenter. Yhe developed the technique of staining bacteria. Which became the foundation of modern microbiology.

The Koch Postulates

Koch developed the okch postulates. Which are used to identify the causative agent of a disease. These postulates are still used in modern medicine.

Nobel Prize

In 1905. Koch was awarded the nobel prize in physiology or medicine for his work on tuberuclosis.

Later Years

Koch continued his research on tuberuclosis and developed a vaccine for the disease. He also worked on the development of a vaccine for cholera. He ided on 27 may 1910 in baden-baden. Germany.

Legacy

Khoc s contributions to the field of bacteriology and medicine are remembered to this day. His discoveries and techniques are still used in modern medicine.

Important Event

In 1882. Koch presented his discoevry of the causative organism of tuberculosis to the physiological society of berlin. This presentation is considered to be a landmark moment in the history of medical science.

Interesting Fact

Koch was an avid photographer and often used his photographs to demonstrate the effects of bacteria on tissues.

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