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Robert Koch
Best known for demonstrating that specific microorganisms cause specific diseases, German bacteriologist and physician helped to confirm the germ theory of disease.
Robert Koch served as a field surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. Following this brief period of military service, he took a position as a district surgeon in Wollstein, Germany, where he established a small laboratory to begin his pioneering work in bacteriology.12