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Robert Koch
German physician and bacteriologist (1843–1910)
For other people named Robert Koch, see Robert Koch (disambiguation).
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (KOKH;[1][2]German:[ˈʁoːbɛʁtˈkɔx]ⓘ; 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 modern bacteriology. As such he is popularly nicknamed the father of microbiology (with Louis Pasteur[3]), and as the father of medical bacteriology.[4][5] His discovery of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) in 1876 is considered as the birth of modern bacteriology.[6] Koch used his discoveries to establish that germs "could cause a specific disease"[7] and directly provided proofs for the germ theory of diseases, therefore creating the scientific basi
