ROBERT KOCH (1874)

Physician and one of the founders of the science of bacteriology.

Koch studied medicine at the University of Göttingen (graduated 1866) and saw service as a field surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).

He discovered the bacterial origin of anthrax (1876) and published papers on investigating, preserving and photographing bacteria (1877) and on his experiments on the causes of wound infection (1878).

He was appointed to a position in the German Health Office (1880).

He identified the tubercle bacillus (1882) and the cholera bacillus (1883).

He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1905.