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Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
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Robert Koch
German physician and bacteriologist (1843–1910)
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology. As such he is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)