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Robert Koch   /rˈɑbərt kɔtʃ/   Listen
Robert Koch

noun
1.
German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).  Synonym: Koch.





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"Robert koch" Quotes from Famous Books



... begun casting about eagerly for light upon the influence of housing, of drainage, of food, in the causation of tuberculosis, when a new and powerful weapon was suddenly placed in their hands by the infant science of bacteriology. This was the now world-famous discovery by Robert Koch that consumption and other forms of tuberculosis were due to the attack of a definite bacillus. No ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson


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