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Robert Koch

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Noun

1. koch, robert koch

German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)

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Robert Koch

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German bacteriologist who identified the tubercle and cholera bacilli and the bacterial cause of anthrax. He won a 1905 Nobel Prize for developing tuberculin, which he originally hoped would cure tuberculosis.

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