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Robert Koch

1843 - 1910

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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( KOKH; German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt kɔx] ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology. As such he is popularly nicknamed the father of microbiology (with Louis Pasteur), and as the father of medical bacteriology. His discovery of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) in 1876 is considered as the birth of modern bacteriology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Koch is the 5th most popular physician, the 50th most popular biography from Germany (down from 39th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Physician.

Robert Koch is most famous for discovering the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robert Koch ranks 5 out of 726. Before him are Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus, and Josef Mengele. After him are Florence Nightingale, Basil of Caesarea, L. L. Zamenhof, Joseph Lister, Edward Jenner, Anthony Fauci, and Albert Schweitzer.

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Among people born in 1843, Robert Koch ranks 3. Before him are William McKinley, and Edvard Grieg. After him are Bertha von Suttner, Charles Albert Gobat, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Camillo Golgi, Louis Renault, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Georg von Hertling, Henry James, and Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1910, Robert Koch ranks 4. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, Edward VII, and Mark Twain. After him are Henry Dunant, Florence Nightingale, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, Henri Rousseau, Nadar, O. Henry, and Giovanni Schiaparelli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Koch ranks 50 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Göring (1893), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Werner Heisenberg (1901), and Christian IX of Denmark (1818). After him are Marlene Dietrich (1901), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Thomas Mann (1875), Gerd Müller (1945), William I, German Emperor (1797), and Adolf Eichmann (1906).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Robert Koch ranks 2. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911). After him are Georgius Agricola (1494), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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