Definition of Robert Koch

1. Noun. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).

Exact synonyms: Koch
Generic synonyms: Bacteriologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Koch

Robert F. Curl
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
Robert Frost
Robert Fulton
Robert Graves
Robert Gray
Robert Herrick
Robert Hooke
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Robert I
Robert James Fischer
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
Robert Joffrey
Robert King Merton
Robert Koch (current term)
Robert Lee Frost
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lowell
Robert M. Yerkes
Robert MacGregor
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Robert Mearns Yerkes
Robert Merton
Robert Mills
Robert Mitchum
Robert Morris
Robert Motherwell
Robert Nesta Marley

Literary usage of Robert Koch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health with Special Reference by William Thompson Sedgwick (1902)
"This view was forever disproved, and bacteriology for the first time established on a scientific basis by the splendid researches of Robert Koch upon ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1884)
"... with Notes and Additions, from the German of Dr Arnold Spina: containing also an Account of the Researches and Discoveries of Dr ^Robert Koch and other ..."

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