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Robert Koch

Born on December 11, 1843

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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( KOKH; German:; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

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