Robert Koch died on 27 May 1910 in Baden-Baden, aged 66. A German physician, Koch is regarded as one of the founders of modern bacteriology. Working first as a country doctor, he identified the bacterium that causes anthrax in 1876, and in 1882 he discovered the tubercle bacillus, the cause of tuberculosis, followed by the cholera bacterium in 1883. He developed techniques for growing pure cultures and staining bacteria, and formulated criteria, known as Koch's postulates, for establishing that a particular microbe causes a disease. He led an institute for infectious diseases in Berlin and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905. His promotion of tuberculin as a cure was not successful.
Before and after
- 21 April 1910Death of Mark Twain
- 11 May 1910Establishment of Glacier National Park
- 12 May 1910Birth of Dorothy Hodgkin
- 15 May 1910First match of the Italy men's national association football team
- 27 May 1910Death of Robert Koch
- from 31 May 1910 to 31 May 1961Union of South Africa
- from 1 June 1910 to 14 June 1913Terra Nova Expedition
- from 3 June 1910 to 30 January 1912Amundsen's South Pole expedition
- 11 June 1910Birth of Jacques Cousteau
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