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Robert Koch: One of the founders of microbiology. 1 / 16. Portrait of the family taken in Koch’s birthplace, Clausthal in the Harz region. Source: RKI. In the 19th century, diseases like tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria and wound infections were the most common cause of death worldwide.
Jan 27, 2014 · Born Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, in 1843, this Prussian physician’s abbreviated name ‘Robert Koch’ became a byword in infectious diseases practice, for having identified the bacillary aetiology of TB, the 19 th century scourge. 4 The enormous public health impact of this discovery on a disease that, at the time, claimed the lives of humans in ...
Aug 26, 2021 · A 38-year-old doctor and microbiologist named Robert Koch methodically and in great detail used more than 200 microscopic preparations to identify the bacterium that causes tuberculosis:...
