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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

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Born 11 December 1843 · Died 27 May 1910 · Q37193

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The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1909).
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2020· 1 entry

Nov 11, 2020Reported claimRated This is untrue. Covid-19 has been isolated many times. It does not need to adhere to Koch’s postulates as it is a virus, and Koch’s rules have been widely disregarded now. Covid-19 PCR tests are generally very accurate. · Full Fact

Full Fact rated the claim “The Covid-19 virus has not been isolated as per Koch’s postulates, and this means PCR tests do not work.” This is untrue. Covid-19 has been isolated many times. It does not need to adhere to Koch’s postulates as it is a virus, and Koch’s rules have been widely disregarded now. Covid-19 PCR tests are generally very accurate..

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1977· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1977Documented record79% confidence

Published “The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data” in Biometrics — cited 63,644 times.

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Jan 1, 1977Documented record79% confidence

Published “The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data” in Biometrics — cited 65,083 times.

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1959· 1 entry

1959Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Indian scientist Sambhu Nath De discovered this poison, the cholera toxin

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1910· 14 entries

May 27, 1910Documented record95% confidence

Died 1910-05-27.

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“Cuando un médico va detrás del féretro de su paciente, a veces la causa sigue al efecto». [When a doctor follows his patient's coffin, sometimes cause follows effect].”

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“El mismo patógeno debe aislarse de los individuos infectados experimentalmente».[The same pathogen must be isolated from the experimentally infected individuals].”

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“La coltura pura è la base di tutta la ricerca sulle malattie infettive.”

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“El cultivo puro es la base de toda investigación sobre enfermedades infecciosas». [The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease]. .”

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“A cultura pura é a base para qualquer estudo sobre doenças infecciosas.”

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“... ci vuole molto tempo prima che siano superati i vecchi pregiudizi medici e nuovi fatti siano riconosciuti corretti.”

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“The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.”

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1910Source gives the year onlyDocumented record81% confidence

On 9 April 1910, Koch suffered a heart attack and never made a complete recovery.

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“Roberto Koch sarà studiato con profitto e con ammirazione anche nei tempi più lontani, perché pochi biologi ebbero al pari di lui il concetto preciso della realtà, il criterio acuto necessario per arrivare alla conclusione e la forza di sbarazzarsi di tutto ciò che é mal definito o ipotetico. (Pio Foà)”

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“I bacilli della tubercolosi producono, sviluppandosi nei tessuti viventi nonchè nelle culture artificiali, certe materie le quali influiscono in modo vario e nocivo sugli elementi viventi circostanti, cioè le cellule. (p. 6)”

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“Il rimedio, col quale si pratica la nuova cura della tubercolosi è dunque un estratto glicerico ottenuto dalle colture nette dei bacilli della tubercolosi. (p. 5)”

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“Ciò che produceva la guarigione del processo tubercolare doveva dunque essere una sostanza solubile la quale viene per un certo qual modo assorbita dai liquidi del corpo, che circondano bagnando i bacilli della tubercolosi, e viene assai presto trasportata nella corrente linfatica, mentre ciò che produceva la suppurazione, come sembra rimane nei bacilli oppure si scioglie assai lentamente. (p. 5)”

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“Si mis esfuerzos han conducido a un éxito mayor de lo habitual, creo que se debe a que durante mis viajes por el campo de la medicina, me he desviado por senderos donde el oro todavía estaba tirado en la cuneta; y solo se necesita un poco de suerte para distinguir el oro de la escoria.”

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1909· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1909Documented record93% confidence

Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1909).

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1906· 2 entries

1906Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Moved to East Africa to research a cure for trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

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1906Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Research on tuberculosis and tropical diseases won him the Order Pour le Merite and in 1908, the Robert Koch Medal, established to honour the greatest living physicians

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1905· 3 entries

Dec 10, 1905Documented record94% confidence

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis.

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Jun 15, 1905Documented record93% confidence

Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1905).

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1905Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis

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1898· 2 entries

1898Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

During an investigation of the epidemic, while Ross had established a cordial relationship with Koch

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1898Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

An American veterinarian Theobald Smith published a detailed comparative study and found that the tuberculosis bacteria are different based on their structure, growth patterns, and pathogenicity

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1897· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1897Documented record93% confidence

Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1897).

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1897Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

And the next year that bird malaria could be transmitted from infected to healthy birds by the bite of a mosquito

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1893· 1 entry

1893Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

And later that same year, he married actress Hedwig Freiberg (1872–1945)

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1891· 1 entry

1891Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Relinquished his professorship and became a director of the Royal Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases (now the Robert Koch Institute), which consisted of a clinical division and beds for the division of clinica

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1890· 1 entry

1890Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

As a medication for tuberculosis, he kept the experiment secret and avoided disclosing the source

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1889· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1889Documented record93% confidence

Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1889).

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1888· 1 entry

1888Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Koch turned his attention to synthetic dyes as antibacterial chemicals

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1887· 1 entry

1887Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

As "Eine kleine Modification des Koch’schen Plattenverfahrens" (A minor modification of the plating technique of Koch)

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1885· 1 entry

1885Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Koch received two appointments as an administrator and professor at Berlin University

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1884· 1 entry

1884Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

In which he concluded that the discovery of tuberculosis bacterium fulfilled the three principles, eventually known as Koch's postulates, which were formulated by his assistant Friedrich Loeffler in 1883, saying:All thes

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1883· 1 entry

1883Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Also mentioned a failed experiment in an attempt to make a tuberculosis vaccine

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1882· 3 entries

1882Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Where Koch criticised Pasteur's methods as "unreliable," and claimed they "are false and [as such ] they inevitably lead to false conclusions

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1882Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

And diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae) in 1884; and Georg Theodor August Gaffky, the bacterium of typhoid (Salmonella enterica) in 1884

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1882Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Published his findings on tuberculosis, in which he reported the causative agent of the disease to be the slow-growing Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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1881· 3 entries

1881Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Koch started using agar to grow and isolate pure cultures

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1881Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

With a statement: "anthrax never occurs without viable anthrax bacilli or spores

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1881Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Titled "Zur Untersuchung von pathogenen Organismen" (Methods for the Study of Pathogenic Organisms) has been known as the "Bible of Bacteriology

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1880· 1 entry

1880Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Promoted to a senior executive position (Geheimer Regierungsrat) in 1882, Director of Hygienic Institute and Chair (Professor of hygiene) of the Faculty of Medicine at Berlin University in 1885, and the Royal Prussian In

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1877· 1 entry

1877Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

On the structure of anthrax bacterium marked the first photography of a bacterium

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1876· 3 entries

1876Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Koch discovered that anthrax was triggered by one singular pathogen

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1876Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

As causality, that is, the germ caused the anthrax infections

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1876Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Is considered the birth of modern bacteriology

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1872· 1 entry

1872Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Koch began to study anthrax

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1870· 1 entry

1870Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Enlisted in the German army as a volunteer surgeon in 1871 to support the war effort

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1868· 1 entry

1868Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Moved to Neimegk and then to Rakwitz in 1869

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1866· 1 entry

1866Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Koch briefly worked as an assistant in the General Hospital of Hamburg

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1862· 1 entry

1862Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

Koch entered the University of Göttingen to study natural science

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1854· 1 entry

1854Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

And was also observed by the Catalan physician Joaquim Balcells i Pascual around the same time

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1848· 1 entry

1848Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Had taught himself how to read and write

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1844· 1 entry

1844Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

For tuberculosis culture media, and Koch subsequently adopted as "tuberkulin

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1843· 1 entry

Dec 11, 1843Documented record95% confidence

Born 1843-12-11.

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1840· 1 entry

1840Source gives the year onlyDocumented record78% confidence

Asked him to participate in his research project on uterine nerve structure

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