Most of us know Robert Koch for the Koch’s principles, which even in this modern era are the guiding light for determining the etiologies of infectious diseases. Though a physician by profession, he incorporated scientific laboratory studies in investigating the causative agents of infectious diseases. Robert Koch was a German physician who took a great deal of interest in infectious diseases and laid the foundations for modern bacteriology. He has been described as a person with astounding intelligence and attributed a character of methodical persistence.
As a child he is said to have taught himself to read and write with the help of newspapers by the age of 5. During his study and practice of medicine, he had been influenced by stalwarts like Henle and Virchow and had taken a keen interest in the origin of infectious disease. Laboratory Techniques Most of his work began in the…
