Robert Koch
1843–1910
Country doctor who found the germs behind three diseases
Mausoleum at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin
In memory of
Alexander von Humboldt
Naturalist and explorer
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 89 years
- Resting place
- Family cemetery, Schloss Tegel, Berlin, Germany
Humboldt spent five years crossing Latin America with a barometer, climbing Chimborazo higher than anyone had recorded and measuring everything from ocean temperature to the blueness of the sky. Out of it came the idea that nature is a single connected web — and the first description of human-caused climate change, written in 1800 about deforestation around a Venezuelan lake.
He spent his fortune on publishing the results and died nearly poor. More species, places and features are named after him than after any other person.
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