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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 was born on December 11, 1843, in Clausthal, Hannover (now Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany).1