Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1843-1910) was a German doctor. He became famous for discovering the tubercle bacillus in (1882) as well as the cholera bacillus (1883) and the development of Koch's postulates. He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1905. It is considered the founder of bacteriology.
born in Prussia (in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, now Germany), was the third of 13 children. After completing his schooling, Koch studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, graduating in 1866 as a doctor in Hamburg and in Langenhagen. His career was temporarily interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war. His first discovery was the Anthrax bacillus (agent of anthrax). At that time, Louis Pasteur had already launched his theory about the role of disease germs, but this was rejected by leading pathologists. It was precisely the work of Koch on the Anthrax that convinced the skeptics that many diseases were caused by microorganisms. In 1880 he was appointed to the Imperial Health Department in Berlin, making this the most brilliant discovery, the tuberculosis bacillus.
Koch's work was to isolate the organism causing the illness and make it grow in pure culture. The pure culture was used to induce the disease in laboratory animals (guinea pig) isolated from the seeds of new diseased animals compared to the original germ.
In India, Calcutta isolates and identifies the bacillus of cholera. And thanks to him and after extensive research SCIENTIFIC contemporéneos is to come to find a way to prevent this ill yet still affects millions.
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