Robert Koch and the Discovery of Tuberculosis: A Pioneering Scientist

Robert Koch helped find the cure for tuberculosis.

Robert Koch developed Koch's postulates to identify microbial disease causation, discovered *Mycobacterium tuberculosis* as the causative agent of tuberculosis, pioneered agar methods for the culture of pure bacteria, discovered *Bacillus anthracis* causing anthrax, studied cholera in Egypt and India, studied malaria in East Africa, tropical Africa, New Guinea, and Italy, and investigated rinderpest in Africa before he died of a heart attack on 27 May 1910 in Baden-Baden.