On 24 March 1882 the German physician Robert Koch announced to the Berlin Physiological Society that he had found the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, then responsible for about one in seven deaths in Europe. Using new staining methods, he isolated and grew the organism and showed that it produced the disease in animals. His rules for proving that a germ causes a disease, the Koch's postulates, became the standard for medical microbiology. He had already identified the anthrax bacillus in 1876 and found the cholera bacterium in 1883. He received the Nobel Prize in 1905.
Before and after
- 25 January 1882Birth of Virginia Woolf
- 30 January 1882Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2 February 1882Birth of James Joyce
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
- 24 March 1882Robert Koch identifies the tuberculosis bacillus
- 19 April 1882Death of Charles Darwin
- 20 May 1882Birth of Sigrid Undset
- 2 June 1882Death of Giuseppe Garibaldi
- 5 June 1882Birth of Igor Stravinsky
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