Robert Koch

Robert Koch (Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch) a German physician, microbiologist. Nobel prize recipient. Father of medical bacteriology. The Grandfather of Cloning. One of the founders of Bacteriology. Discoverer of bacteria causing anthrax, tuberculosis. One of the discoverer of cholera. He developed Koch’s postulates, fundamental to identifying disease-causing microbes. Robert Koch’s method for propagating individual colonies of bacteria on plates, which became known as ‘cloning’.