Robert Koch

                         1843-1910

Place of birth:    Klausthal (Germany)

Residence:    Germany

Education:    Studied at Göttingen to become a physician and a surgeon

Affiliation:   Hygienic Institute at Berlin (Professor and Director, 1885);

 

 

 

 

 

Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten (Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin - Director from 1891)

Discovered the tuberculosis bacillus (1882)

Led a German expedition to Egypt and India, where he discovered the cholera bacillus (1883)

1905 Nobel Prize Biography of Robert Koch in Medicine