It talks about Robert Koch Birth, family history, education, career, personal life, contribution, award, inventions and death.

1. ROBERT KOCH
1843 – 1910
DR. C. BEULAH JAYARANI
M.Sc., M.A, M.Ed, M.Phil (Edn), M.Phil (ZOO), NET, Ph.D (Edn)
ASST. PROFESSOR,
LOYOLA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, CHENNAI - 34

3. December 11th
1843, at Clausthal
in the Upper Harz
Mountains,
Germany
BIRTH

4. Born into a
mining family
3rd of 13 children
Taught himself to
read at age 5
FAMILY HISTORY

5. Local high school
Preferred biology
Interesting fact:
School is now
named Robert Koch
School
EDUCATION

6. Göttingen
University –
medicine – 1862
He was under the
Professor of
Anatomy, Jacob
Henle
Graduated with a
M.D. degree in
1866
EDUCATION

7. Koch visited Berlin
to attend the Charité
clinics and Rudolf
Virchow’s course in
pathology
Father of modern
pathology
EDUCATION

8. In 1866, he
married a
daughter of the
general
superintendent of
Clausthal, Emmy
Adolfine Josefine
Fraatz
PERSONAL LIFE

9. Assistant in the
General Hospital at
Hamburg in 1867
but soon resigned
 Passed the District
Medical Officer’s
Examination and
joined as military
volunteer during
Franco-Prussian war
from 1872 to 1880
CAREER

10. Set out to prove scientifically that a
bacillus is, in fact, the cause of Anthrax
which was popular
Inoculated mice (with anthrax
bacilli) using spleens of dead
infected animals and found that mice
all died of infection
But mice inoculated with blood from
spleens of healthy animals did not suffer
from the disease.
CAREER

11. Koch noticed spore
formation during
unfavourable conditions
which can resist adverse
conditions
Koch grew the bacilli for
several and showed that
they could still cause
anthrax.
CAREER

12. Koch showed the
results to Ferdinand
Cohn (Professor of
Botany,
University of
Breslau) who
published Koch’s
work in his
journal in 1876
CAREER

13. In 1880 he was appointed a member of the Imperial Health Bureau
in Berlin
Invented new methods of cultivating pure cultures of bacteria on
solid medias of potato, agar (Petri plates)
Developed bacterial staining methods making them easily visible
and easy to identify
Pathogenic bacteria could now be easily obtained in pure culture,
by which they could be detected and identified
Koch also gave ‘Koch’s postulates’; conditions to be met before
noting which bacteria causes a particular disease
CAREER

15. Koch discovered the
tubercle bacillus, isolated
it and published his work
in 1882
In 1883, he went to Egypt
and India as part of the
German Cholera
Commission to investigate
an outbreak of cholera
He discovered vibrio
that cause cholera
CAREER

16. In 1885, he was appointed
Professor of Hygiene in the
University of Berlin and Director
of the newly established Institute
of Hygiene in the University
In 1890, he was appointed as a
General Surgeon in Berlin
In 1891 he became an Honorary
Professor of the Medical Faculty
of Berlin and Director of the new
Institute for Infectious Diseases
CAREER

17. In 1896, Koch went to South Africa to study the origin of
rinderpest – (incomplete)
Worked in India and Africa on malaria, blackwater fever, surra
of cattle and horses and plague – published in 1898
Went to Italy where he studied malaria and found different
forms of malaria and their control with quinine
Also found that bovine and human tuberculosis are not the same
– controversy – proven right
In 1904, he went to East Africa to study cattle fever and ticks
CAREER

18. In 1905 he
was awarded
the Nobel
Prize for
Physiology or
Medicine
AWARDS

20. Dr. Koch died
on May 27, 1910,
in Baden-Baden
DEATH

21. REFERENCES
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 TN Text book
 NCERT reader
 Discovery today
 Wikipedia