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Mar 19, 2024 · Robert Koch was a German physician and one of the founders of bacteriology. He discovered the anthrax disease cycle (1876) and the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis (1882) and cholera (1883). For his discoveries in regard to tuberculosis, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (English: / k ɒ x / KOKH, German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈkɔx] ⓘ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis , cholera and anthrax , he is regarded as one of the main founders of ...
- Georg Meissner
- Imperial Health Office, Berlin, University of Berlin
He was still busy with work on tuberculosis when he was sent, in 1883, to Egypt as Leader of the German Cholera Commission, to investigate an outbreak of cholera in that country. Here he discovered the vibrio that causes cholera and brought back pure cultures of it to Germany. He also studied cholera in India.
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Robert Koch? Physician Robert Koch is best known for isolating the tuberculosis bacterium, the cause of numerous deaths in the mid-19th century. He won the Nobel Prize in 1905 for...
Nov 10, 2018 · Koch discovered the life cycle of the bacteria responsible for anthrax and identified the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and cholera. Fast Facts: Robert Koch. Nickname: Father of Modern Bacteriology. Occupation: Physician. Born: December 11, 1843 in Clausthal, Germany. Died: May 27, 1910 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
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 ...