for his
investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis.
Background
1843-1910
Place of birth: Klausthal (Germany)
Residence: Germany
Education: Studied at Göttingen to become a physician and surgeon
Affiliation: Hygienic Institute at Berlin (Professor and Director, 1885); Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten (Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin - Director from 1891)
Discovered the tuberculosis bacillus (1882)
Led a German expedition to Egypt and India, where he discovered the cholera bacillus (1883)