Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine and Bacteriology (Scientific Revolutionaries : A Biographical Series)

By Thomas D. Brock

Book Overview

Robert Koch's story is a stirring example of how a lone country doctor can rise above all odds to become a true scientific revolutionary. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1905, Koch is best known today for his discoveries of the causal agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax. His vital contributions to microbiological methodology also make him the founder of the field of bacteriology and central to the establishment of the disciplines of hygiene and public health.He was also a world traveler and made numerous important research expeditions to India (where he discovered the cause of cholera), Africa, and New Guinea. Koch's postulates, a series of guidelines for the experimental study of infectious disease, permitted Koch and his students to identify many of the causes of the most important infectious diseases of humans and animals. Even today Koch's postulates are considered whenever a new infectious disease arises.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910239193
• ISBN13: 9780910239196
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Science Tech Pub
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Robert Koch: a life in medicine and bacteriology

Writing scientific historical biography that is readable is a difficult task, and Prof. Brock has suceeded in this. A great book about a great man, that in simple language communicates the excitement of a revolutionary time in medicine where a few people in the space of 20 years changed our world forever.I loved this book and couldn't put it down, and this is in part due to the author communicating his own enthusiasm for his subject. If you are looking for a gift for anyone working in bioscience or biomedicine then you couldn't do better than this book.