Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
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He pinned down the invisible killers — tuberculosis, cholera, anthrax — and turned germs from theory into prosecutable fact. The techniques he invented to grow and photograph bacteria in a lab became the blueprint for hunting disease.
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Robert Koch was a German physician working privately when he isolated the anthrax bacterium in 1876, an event now marked as the birth of modern bacteriology. He developed the bacterial culture method using agar and glass plates, invented oil immersion microscopy, and became the first to grow bacteria in controlled laboratory conditions. In 1882 he announced his discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium — a date the World Health Organization has observed as World Tuberculosis Day since 1982 — and later identified the cholera agent, work that won him the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.…
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