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Robert Koch: the man and the microbes | Science | In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW | 26.05.2010
Nobel Prize - German physician Robert Koch, born on this day in 1843, discovered the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) In the 1800s, the disease caused as many as a quarter of
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