Semey State Medical University Performed: Alybai A. A

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Robert Koch • He was born on 11 th December 1843. • His birthplace is in Clausthal-Zellenfeld • Robert Koch died on 27 th May 1910 in Baden.

Robert Koch‘s life Robert Koch finished school in 1861. In 1862 he started to study medicine and bacteriology. He worked as a doctor in Hamburg, Langenhagen, Niemegk and Rackwitz. He was a doctor in the German — French War from 1870 to 1871.

Robert Koch He researched Anthrax bacteria and discovered the tubercolosis bacteria.

What made him Famous ? • In 1878 Koch discovered that microbes cause wounds to go septic, but his big breakthrough came when he decided to stain microbes with dye, enabling him to photograph them under a microscope. Using this method he was able to study them more effectively and prove that every disease was caused by a different germs. He identified the microbes that caused tuberculosis in 1882 and cholera in 1883.

In 1891 he worked in the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin. There he searched for the vaccination against Tuberculosis. He founded a fund against Tuberculosis

From 1896 to 1907 he travelled around the world for research, particularly tropical countries. There he discovered the virus of Rinderpest, Testse disease in Afrika, Bubonic plague in Indian and Malarya in Java.

Robert Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.

• Discovery of the Robert Koch made an invaluable contribution to health development , health , hygiene, architecture, urban planning , bacteriology , microbiology in general, as well as the coordination of research and practical measures to combat infectious diseases such as tuberculosis , cholera , anthrax , typhoid fever , malaria , plague cattle , sleeping sickness ( trypanosomiasis ) and human plague.