(December 11, 1843 – May 27, 1910)
Koch is one of the scientists whose works supplanted Galen’s age-long Miasma Theory: by consolidating the more modern and more accurate Germ Theory of Diseases. He developed what became known as the Koch’s Postulates in the 19th century. With that he demonstrated the abundance of pathogenic microbes in people afflicted with infectious diseases. He also proved that these microbes could be isolated from their hosts, and grown into pure laboratory cultures capable of instigating the same illnesses if (and/or when) inoculated into healthy individuals. Finally, he showed that subsequent isolates from these new patients were identical to the pathogens from the initial hosts. Robert Koch was the first person who definitively proved the pathogenicity of Bacillus anthracis. He was also the first to discover Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although Vibrio cholerae was first isolated by Filippo Pacini, it was Koch’s rediscovery 30 years later which brought attention to it. After these bacteriological probes, he turned his attention to protozoological ones: studying Plasmodium falciparum and Entamoeba histolytica. He remained a lifelong researcher; and helped pioneer modern laboratory techniques: thanks to the early impetuses from Jakob Henle (the anatomy professor who whetted his appetite for evidence-based medicine). Koch later inspired Paul Ehrlich, Kitasato Shibasaburo and Emil von Behring. His trendsetting works advanced lab analysis, improved public health, and instigated further research on contagious diseases. Several honors, including the Robert Koch Gold Medal (for accumulated excellence in biomedical science) and the Robert Koch Prize (a €100,000 reward for major biomedical discovery), are dedicated to him.
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