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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.
After gaining recognition as a scientific investigator of the first rank, Robert Koch obtained a position at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin, where he established a laboratory dedicated to bacteriology.1