Dr. Robert Koch & his Discoveries:
Name:
Dr. Robert Koch (1843-1910)
Dr. Robert Koch
Place of Birth:
Klaustal (Germany)
Date of Birth:
Dec. 11, 1843
Country
Germany
Education :
Studied at Gotteingeon to become a physician and surgeon, M.D.degree in 1862. Passed District Medical officers' Examination in 1869.
Affiliation- Assistant in the General Hospital at Hamburg in 1867.
- District Medical Officer at Wollstein, Germany in 1872
- Discovered cause of Anthrax in 1870s
- Served as volunteer in Franco-Prussian war 1872-80.
- Appointed member of Imperial Health Bureau in Berlin in 1880, and invented new method of cultivating pure cultures of bacteria in solid media.
- Appointed as government advisor with the Imperial Department of Health in Berlin in 1880.
- Started using methylene-blue for staining technique developed by his colleague in 1880.
- Discovered tuberculosis bacillus and method of growing it in pure culture in 1882.
- Led a German expedition to Egypt and India, where he discovered the cholera bacillus (1883)
- Hygienic Institute in Berlin (Professor and Director, 1885)
- Discovered the cause of bacterial infections of wounds in 1887
- Appointed Brigadier General (Generalaazt) and Freeman of the City of Berlin in 1890.
- Institute for Inektions- Krankheiten (Institute of Infectious Disease, Berlin - Director 1891)
- Became Honourary Professor of medical faculty and Director of the new institute of infectious diseases.
- Announced new tuberculin- discovery of substances of diagnostic value of tuberculosis in 1896.
- He worked in India and Africa on Malaria, Black-water fever, Sera of cattle and horses and Plague in 1898.
- Worked on Typhus
- Earned many awards and prizes.
- Retired from Director of Berlin's Institute of Infectious Diseases in 1904.
- Awarded by Nobel Prize for medicine in 1905.
- Returned Central Africa for experimental work on bacteriology and serology in 1906.
- Married, Emmy Fraats in 1866.
- Second Marriage with Hedwig Freiberg in 1893.
- Died at the German Health Resort of Baden-baden on May 27, 1910.
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