로베르트 코흐 (1843-1910)

하인리히 헤르만 로베르트 코흐는 독일의 의사, 미생물학자이다. 탄저병(1877년), 콜레라(1885년)의 구체적인 원인물질이 병원균인 탄저균과 콜레라균임을 명확히 규명하여 ‘세균학의 아버지’라는 평가를 받고 있다. 1882년에 결핵균을 최초로 발견했으며 이 발견으로 인해 1905년 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상했다.

Robert Koch (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 popularly nicknamed the father of microbiology (with Louis Pasteur), and as the father of medical bacteriology. His discovery of the anthrax bacterium in 1876 is considered as the birth of modern bacteriology. Koch used his discoveries to establish that germs "could cause a specific disease" and directly provided proofs for the germ theory of diseases, therefore creating the scientific basis of public health, saving millions of lives. For his life's work Koch is seen as one of the founders of modern medicine.