ROBERT KOCH

ROBERT KOCH

• Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch
• Born Dec 11 1843 in Clausthal
• Died May 28 1910 in Baden-Baden
• Awarded Nobel Prize in 1905

ANTHRAX

• Started studying Anthrax at age 28
• Expanded Louis Pasteur's work on germ theory
• Proved Bacillus anthracis causes Anthrax
• Did experiments on 20 generations of mice
• Demonstrated his findings in Poland

TUBERCULOSIS

• In 1882 Koch isolated Tubercle bacillus
• In 1890 he discovered Tuberculin
• This was first thought to be a cure
• But is now used to diagnose the disease

CHOLERA

• In 1883 studied Cholera in Egypt & India
• He found the Cholera microbe that same year
• He was given 25000 dollars by Germany
• Made Director of a Research Institute
• Specialised in Tropical Diseases in East & West Africa

ADVANCES

• Working with agar and gelatine
• His assistant, Julius Petri designed the Petri Dish
• Staining of bacteria aided viewing under Microscopes
• Using these methods, other diseases were identified
• Typhus (1880), Tetanus (1884) & The Plague (1894)