Heinrich Herman Robert Koch

In 1848, without having reached also 5 years, went to local elementary school in 1851 comes to Klaustal's gymnasium In 1862 goes to the University of Göttingen Robert Koch with the family Richard, Bill and Robert Koch

Medical practice in 1866 finishes tutoring at the university and gains the medical diploma. In 1867 married Emma Adelfine Josephine Frats. In 1870 French-Prussian war begins, and Koch's work in hospital is interrupted. Koch voluntarily becomes the doctor of field hospital

Research works

Siberian plague In 1872 Koch is appointed the district health officer in Volshteyna. Establishes epidemiological features of a disease, shows that one stick of a bacterium can form multimillion colony. These researches for the first time proved bacterial origin of a disease. In 1876 and 1877 Koch's articles on problems of a malignant anthrax are published in the university of Breslau. In 1880 Koch becomes the government adviser in Imperial office of health care in Berlin. In 1881 Koch publishes work «Methods for the Study of Pathogenic Organisms» in which he describes a way of a bacterial cultivation on the dense mediums. the activator of a malignant anthrax

Tuberculosis Koch paints the pounded tubercular fabric of the 271st medicine in methyl blue, and then in the caustic red-brown paint used in skin finishing and finds tiny, slightly arched, bright Xing the painted sticks are Koch's sticks. On March 24, 1882, when he declared that he managed to allocate the bacterium causing tuberculosis In 1885 Koch becomes professor of the Berlin university and the director of just created Institute of hygiene. In 1890 Koch declares that such way is found. It emitted the sterile liquid containing the substances produced by a tubercular stick during its activity a tuberculin. Koch's sticks

Awards The stamp of Germany devoted to century of the Nobel Prize handed to Robert Koch