Person    | Male  Born 12/12/1845  Died 27/5/1910

Robert Koch

Categories: Medicine

Countries: Germany

Discovered the bacilli for anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera. A founder of bacteriology.

Born Clausthal, Germany. Died Baden-Baden, Germany.

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Charing Cross Hospital

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Physiological Society

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Sir William Leishman

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