The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989
1989 · a border opened by a misread announcement
Bornholmer Straße crossing, Berlin
In memory of
Robert Koch
Country doctor who found the germs behind three diseases
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 66 years
- Resting place
- Mausoleum at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Koch worked out the anthrax bacillus in a corner of his consulting room in a small town, with a microscope his wife had given him for his birthday. He went on to identify the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and cholera, and to set out the rules still used for proving that a particular microbe causes a particular disease.
Tuberculosis was then killing one European in seven. He is buried in the institute that carries his name, a few metres from the laboratories.
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