Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of... Wikipedia
Born: December 11, 1843, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Died: May 27, 1910 (age 66 years), Baden-Baden, Germany
Nationality: German
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society (1897) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1905)
Children: Gertrud Pfuhl
Parents: Mathilde Julie Henriette Biewand and Hermann Koch
Spouse: Hedwig Freiberg (m. 1893–1910) and Emma Adolfine Josephine Fraatz (m. 1867–1893)