Sunday, May 27, 2007
This Day in the History of Great Scientists
On this day in 1910, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert Koch died at age 66. Although few know the name, there are few people in world history whose work has saved or led to the saving of more lives. He was a German doctor and a founder of the science of bacteriology. He discovered the tubercle bacillus in 1882, and the cholera bacillus in 1883. He studied bubonic plague in Bombay in 1897 and malaria and sleeping sickness in Africa on numerous occasions. Not only did his work save humans but he did work of exceptional importance concerning destructive tropical cattle diseases, such as rinderpest, Surra disease, Texas fever, coast fever in cattle and the trypanosome disease carried by the tsetse fly. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1905, "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."
Labels: Bacteriology Founders; Good German Doctors
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