AKA Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch

Born: 11-Dec-1843
Birthplace: Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Died: 27-May-1910
Location of death: Baden-Baden, Germany
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Cremated, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Doctor

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Discovered bacteria that causes tuberculosis

Wife: Emmy Adolfine Fraats (m. 1866)
Daughter: Gertrud (b. 1865)
Wife: Hedwig Freiberg (m. 1893)

    University: University of Göttingen (1866)
    Professor: University of Berlin

    Nobel Prize for Medicine 1905

Is the subject of books:
Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine and Bacteriology, 1988, BY: Thomas D. Brock

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