In 1905, Robert Koch won the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Date of Birth: 11 December 1843.
Died: 27 May 1910.
Nationality: German.
Country: Germany.
Education: University of Göttingen.
Known as: Koch’s postulates, Koch–Pasteur rivalry, Bacterial culture method, Germ theory of disease, Medical microbiology, Discovery of the anthrax bacillus, Discovery of tuberculosis bacillus and tuberculin, Discovery of cholera bacillus.
Profession: Physician and Microbiologist.
Awards: ForMemRS (1897), Nobel Prize in Medicine (1905), Pour le Mérite (1906).
Fields: Microbiology.
