Robert Koch

Also known as Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch, R. Koch, R Koch, Koch R, Koch R.

German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)

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Robert Koch was a biologist, physician, inventor, and photographer born in Clausthal in 1843. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of Hanover and the German Empire. Koch participated in the Franco-Prussian War and was educated at the University of Göttingen. He died of a myocardial infarction in Baden-Baden in 1910.

Koch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His doctoral students included Emil von Behring, Friedrich Loeffler, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and August von Wassermann. He was advised by Georg Meissner and Rudolf Virchow.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 71

Top works

Berichte über Die Tätigkeit der Malariaexpedition 1899-1900
CHRISTIANITY
Die Bekämpfung der Infektionskrankheiten Inbesondere der Kriegsseuchen
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated - Robert Koch
Professor Koch on the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Cholera, Water-Filtration and Cholera, and the Cholera in Germany During the Winter Of 1892-93

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1962

german audiobook readergerman voice actor

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 262,075
Total plays: 3,135,042

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,712x
The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,309x
Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,512x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,778x
Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,745x

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1905
“for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis”

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Robert Koch, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Bericht über die Untersuchungen des Berliner Leitungswassers in der Zeit vom 1.Juni 1885 bis 1.April 1896 ausgeführt im hygienischen Institut der Universität Berlin

~35 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (/kɒx/ KOKH; German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt kɔx] ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) 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".

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), and as the father of medical bacteriology. His discovery of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) in 1876 is considered the birth of modern bacteriology. Koch used his discoveries to establish that germs "could cause a specific disease" and directly provided proofs for the germ theory of diseases, therefore creating the scientific basis of public health, saving millions of lives. For his life's work, Koch is seen as one of the founders of modern medicine.

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