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Koch, Robert
(Rob¦ert Koch)
Pronunciation:
/kɒx/
(
1843–1910
)
, German bacteriologist, who identified the organisms causing anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1905).
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