Koch
Important in Medicine because…
· He continued Pasteur’s early successes and developed them.
· Koch used the Germ Theory to try and find the individual microbe that caused the specific disease.
· He used high-powered microscopes to see microbes he had been able to dye different colours.
· In 1875 he identified Anthrax spores.
· Koch found the bacteria that caused septicaemia, and tuberculosis (1882) and cholera (1883). In his research team he developed the talents of no less than three future Nobel Prize Winners: Domagk, Ehrlich and Behring.