oct 11, 1872 - Robert Koch

Description:

-German country doctor
-Able to grow anthrax bacteria in an ox eyeball
-Observation: If you grow anthrax bacteria and inject it into healthy cattle, they get sick
-Hypothesis: The bacteria causes diseases
-Germ theory of Disease
-Koch’s Postulates - Prove a microorganism can cause a certain disease
-Golden Age of microbiology
-Died of same disease- see same bacteria