Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch

Robert Koch

Robert Koch: The Grandfather of Cloning?

This year marks the centenary of Robert Koch's Nobel Prize for discovering the cause of tuberculosis. Koch was also the first scientist to isolate the anthrax and cholera microbes. Yet perhaps one of his greatest contributions to biology is the least appreciated: his method for propagating individual colonies of bacteria on plates, a technique that came to be called cloning.

Early clinical pathologists: Robert Koch (1843-1910).

ANALYTIC CONTINUATION OF GROUP REPRESENTATIONS - V Robert Hermann

The connection between analytic continuation of group representations and analytic continuation of their matrix elements is discussed, together with some related problems concerning the group-theoretic nature of the S-matrix, and the asymptotic behavior of the special functions of mathematical physics. (To be submitted to Comm. of Math. Phys.) Work supported by U. S. Atomic Energy Commission AN...

Robert Koch and the cholera vibrio: a centenary.

On 2 February 1884 Robert Koch reported from Calcutta to the German Secretary of State for the Interior his reasoned conviction that the vibrio found in the intestines and stools of cholera victims was the causal agent of the disease.' This was the sixth of seven dispatches sent over a period of 24 weeks, all but the third of which were published in the German official gazette and thus made ava...