Research Paper On Robert Koch
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind” (Eugenides). Biology is the study of life. The biological community is changing everyday due to scientist. There is one scientist who has contributed many studies to the biological community and that is Robert Koch. This paper, filled with research, will explain the life of Robert Koch and his contribution to biology. On December 11, 1843, at Clausthal in the Upper Harz Mountain, which is located in the Northern Germany, Robert Koch was born. His father was a mining engineer. His intelligence foreshadowed his future education because, he taught himself to read the newspaper at the age of five. He taught himself by examining the words. Robert attended a local high school, which showed
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Robert was a doctor so he had an advantage of human body knowledge. Robert important qualities was the ability to work for a long periods of time and was patient. “Koch was however, difficult to work with and could not tolerate anyone telling him that his theories were wrong” (Robert 2). Anthrax was the first disease that Koch put his time in to study. Pollender, Rayer and Davaine discovered the Anthrax Bacillus. Koch wanted to prove that the bacillus was the cause of the disease. He used Mice to help conduct the experiment. His conclusion was the mice were killed when injected with the blood of a anthrax disease farm animal and healthy blood from farm animals survived. “By studying, drawing and photographing these cultures, Koch recorded the multiplication of the bacilli and noticed that, when conditions are unfavorable to them, they produce inside themselves rounded spores give rise to bacilli again” (Robert). “Koch grew the bacilli for several generations in these pure cultures and showed that, although they had no contact with any kind of animal, they could still cause Anthrax” (Robert). He then moved to diseases or germs that specifically affected humans. He identified the germ that caused blood poisoning and septicaemia in 1878. Another discovery made by him was that methyl violet dye showed up the tiny germs under the microscope by staining it. Koch also perfected a
Robert was a doctor so he had an advantage of human body knowledge. Robert important qualities was the ability to work for a long periods of time and was patient. “Koch was however, difficult to work with and could not tolerate anyone telling him that his theories were wrong” (Robert 2). Anthrax was the first disease that Koch put his time in to study. Pollender, Rayer and Davaine discovered the Anthrax Bacillus. Koch wanted to prove that the bacillus was the cause of the disease. He used Mice to help conduct the experiment. His conclusion was the mice were killed when injected with the blood of a anthrax disease farm animal and healthy blood from farm animals survived. “By studying, drawing and photographing these cultures, Koch recorded the multiplication of the bacilli and noticed that, when conditions are unfavorable to them, they produce inside themselves rounded spores give rise to bacilli again” (Robert). “Koch grew the bacilli for several generations in these pure cultures and showed that, although they had no contact with any kind of animal, they could still cause Anthrax” (Robert). He then moved to diseases or germs that specifically affected humans. He identified the germ that caused blood poisoning and septicaemia in 1878. Another discovery made by him was that methyl violet dye showed up the tiny germs under the microscope by staining it. Koch also perfected a