Robert Koch: An appreciation

Robert Koch

An Appreciation of Robert Turner

Robert Turner (1938–1999) was a remarkable man. Although he is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), the breadth and depth of his contributions to diabetes research are remarkable. It is a privilege for us, just a few of his many close friends and colleagues, to be able to review his contributions as a scientist and to remember him as a unique human be...

Robert Koch: The Grandfather of Cloning?

This year marks the centenary of Robert Koch's Nobel Prize for discovering the cause of tuberculosis. Koch was also the first scientist to isolate the anthrax and cholera microbes. Yet perhaps one of his greatest contributions to biology is the least appreciated: his method for propagating individual colonies of bacteria on plates, a technique that came to be called cloning.

Early clinical pathologists: Robert Koch (1843-1910).

Robert C. King: an appreciation of his work.

THE advance of scientific knowledge is a combined early differentiation of the Drosophila egg chamber in product of both the contributions of the individual the 1960s. Through painstaking three-dimensional (3D) scientist and the acceptance and authentication of his reconstructions of serially sectioned egg chambers, they or her work over time by the larger scientific community. deciphered the p...