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He was a celebrated microbiologist and physician. He won the "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine" in 1905. He was a German scientist who developed Louis Pasteur's work on the germ theory. He found the germs for typhus and cholera and the cause of anthrax. He also developed a way of staining germs to make them recognizable.

He was very methodical and systematic in the way he worked. He modernized the way that surgery, public health and cures could be faced. His work saved millions of lives as it is still used today.

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Robert Koch isolated the bacteria that causes tuberculosis and cholera.

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Robert Koch was a microbiologist. Robert Koch is best known for his role in identifying the causes of illnesses such as anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera.

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