Robert Koch [1843-1910] Robert Koch [ pronounced cock] established bacteriology as a separate science. He developed new techniques of straining, incubating, and growing bacteria, which remain the basis of the bacteriological study of infections. Born in Klausthal-Zellerfeld , on December 11, 1843, Koch enrolled at the University of Gottingen in 1862, where he studied botany, physics, and mathematics and began his lifelong medical career. After a brief tenure at the Hamburg General Hospital and at an institute for retarded children, …showed first 75 words of 235 total…

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