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Authorised form of nameKoch; Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843 - 1910)
Other forms of nameRobert
Dates1843 - 1910
Place of birthClausthal, Oberharz, Germany
Date of birth11 December 1843
Place of deathBaden-Baden, Germany
Date of death27/05/1910
Research fieldBacteriology
Hygiene
Tropical medicine
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1905
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election04/03/1897
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1910-1911 vol 83 pp xviii-xxiv signed by C J M
References:
Anne Cooke, 'From Microbes to Man. Ulf Lagerkvist, Pioneers of microbiology and the Nobel Prize' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 234-236
CodeNA1536
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1897/05Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/14/632Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W. 12 April 1897
NLB/14/630Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrisons & Sons12 April 1897
NLB/17/228Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir John Kirk, Fellow of the Royal Society10 September 1898
NLB/42/374Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons30 May 1910
MS/427/265Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Lionel Smith] Beale1 February 1883
NLB/14/501Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir William Hely-Hutchinson11 March 1897
NLB/20/748Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies27 June 1900
AP/73/8Paper, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington22 February 1897
AP/73/8/1Manuscript, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington22 February 1897
PP/7/20Letter, 'Addition to a former paper on Trichophyton tonsurans' from George Thin to Michael Foster2 December 1885
PP/9/1Paper, 'Preliminary report on the pathology of Cholera Asiatica (as observed in Spain, 1885)' by Charles Smart Roy, J Graham Brown and Charles Scott Sherrington1886
PP/9/1/1Manuscript, 'Preliminary report on the pathology of Cholera Asiatica (as observed in Spain, 1885)' by Charles Smart Roy, J Graham Brown and Charles Scott Sherrington1886
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