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Robert Koch was a German biologist, physician, inventor, and photographer born in Clausthal in 1843. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of Hanover and the German Empire. Koch worked in the field of microbiology and was employed by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He participated in the Franco-Prussian War. His doctoral advisors were Georg Meissner and Rudolf Virchow. He supervised doctoral students including Emil von Behring, Friedrich Loeffler, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and August von Wassermann.

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. He was educated at the University of Göttingen. His works include *Berichte über Die Tätigkeit der Malariaexpedition 1899-1900* and *Die Bekämpfung der Infektionskrankheiten Inbesondere der Kriegsseuchen*. He died of myocardial infarction in Baden-Baden in 1910.