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Who is Robert Koch?

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Robert Koch was born on December 11. 1843. In 1862 he attended the University of Gttingen to study medicine. Here the Professor of Anatomy was Jacob Henle and Koch was no doubt influenced by Henle's views. Koch was a German scientist who developed Louis Pasteur's work on the germ theory, he found germs for typhus and cholera and the cause of anthrax, he also developed a way of staining germs to make them recognizable. In the way he worked he was very methodical and systematic. He got nationalism to help fund his work and theories. He also modernized the way that surgery, public health and cures could be faced. He saved millions of lives as it is still used today.