ScienceBorn December 11, 1843

Robert Koch

German physician and bacteriologist

Born
December 11, 1843
Died
May 27, 1910 (aged 66)
Known as
biologist, physician, inventor, photographer, university teacher, chemist

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

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