Robert Koch (1843-1910)

Awarded the Prize “for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis.”

German bacteriologist. Koch was born on December 11, 1843, at Clausthal, Germany. He took his M.D. degree in 1866 at G?ttingen. In 1885 he was appointed Professor of Hygiene in the University of Berlin and Director of the Institute of Hygiene in the University there. In 1891 he became an Honorary Professor of the Medical Faculty of Berlin and Director of Institute for Infectious Diseases. Koch died in Baden-Baden on May 27, 1910.