Robert+Koch

Robert Koch
 * Occupation ** – Medical scientist- someone who job it is to design and prove medicines for diseases for all types of humans/animals. 


 * Birth ** – Born December 11, 1843


 * Death- **Died March 27, 1910


 * Place of Birth **–Born in Clausthal, Germany

Robert Koch is known for taking the first pictures of bacteria and discovered how tuberculosis spreads. More famously he is known for winning the 1905 Nobel Prize for phycology or medicine and demonstrating to the world the first definite proof that a particular microbe causes a particular disease-Koch’s Postulate (so picture below). His role in identifying the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax helped him get even more famous.
 * Known For- **

 Koch’s postulate is used for giving support of that a disease is infectious. This means that you can prove that the same type of bacterial that gives me the influenza virus will also give you the influenza virus, instead of giving you strep throat so that you can concentrate on how to kill that one type of disease. Discovered that dieses could travel man to man through cells and how to prove what a disease does (Koch’s postulate). Robert Koch also took the first pictures of bacteria and contributed enough effort towards a vaccine of anthrax that Lous Pasture cold not have come up with the disease without him.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Career **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;"> **–**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Interned at a hospital in Hamburg ,
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. served in battlefield hospital during Franco-Prussian war,
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. Professor of Hygiene at The University of Berlin,
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. appointed to the royal health institute in Berlin,
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. made director of a great institute to pursue his researches
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">Did you know **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;"> –
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Won 4th Nobel Prize for medicine <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. Traveled to Egypt and South Africa.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. Hailed as a demigod in japan and
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. Became like pope of medical science when made first cure for tuberculosis.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Came up with Koch’s postulate
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. His wife gave him his first microscope.


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