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Definition: Koch from Collins English Dictionary

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1 Robert (ˈroːbɛrt). 1843–1910, German bacteriologist, who isolated the anthrax bacillus (1876), the tubercle bacillus (1882), and the cholera bacillus (1883): Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1905


Koch, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert (1843-1910)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Germany Subject : biography, biology German bacteriologist who, with Louis Pasteur , is generally considered to be one of the two founders of modern bacteriology. He developed techniques for culturing, staining, and observing micro-organisms and discovered the causative pathogens of several diseases - including tuberculosis, for which discovery he was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Koch was born on 11 December 1843 in Klausthal, Germany, one of 13 children of a mining official. He studied natural sciences and then medicine at Göttingen University, where he was taught by Friedrich Wöhler and Friedrich Henle (1809-1885), obtaining his medical degree in 1866. After serving as an army surgeon (on the Prussian side) in the Franco-Prussian War, Koch became in 1872 district medical officer in Wollstein where, despite having few research facilities, he began important investigations into anthrax. For a brief period in 1879 he was town medical officer in…
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Full text Article Koch, Robert 1843–1910.

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Full text Article Koch, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert (1843-1910)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Germany Subject : biography, biology German bacteriologist who, with Louis Pasteur , is generally considered to be one of the two founders of modern bacteriology. He developed techniques for culturing, staining, and observing micro-organisms and discovered the causative pathogens of several…
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Full text Article Koch, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert (1843–1910)

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German bacteriologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis. Koch and his assistants devised the techniques for culturing bacteria outside the body, and formulated the rules for showing whether or not a…
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Full text Article TUBERCULOSIS

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English Christian writer and preacher …Captain Consumption, with all his men of death … The Whole Works of John Bunyan (Volume 1 ) Memoir of John Bunyan (p. xxxiv ) Blackie & Son. London England . 1862. German physician The struggle against tubercul... …
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Sr. Robert Koch (1843-1910) leaving the Royal Hospital, where the English patient is being treated, from 'The Graphic', 6th December 1890 (engraving) (b/w photo)
Artist: English School, (19th century) Location: Private Collection Credit: Sr. Robert Koch (1843-1910) leaving the Royal Hospital, where the English patient is being treated, from 'The Graphic', 6th December 1890 (engraving) (b/w photo), English School, (19th century) / Private Collection / The…
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Full text Article Koch

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Full text Article Koch's postulates

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Full text Article Koch's postulates

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Full text Article Koch’s postulates

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Dr Koch's Treatment for Consumption at the Royal Hospital, Berlin: Professor Pfuhl Inoculating a Patient with the Lymph (engraving) (b&w photo)
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