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Robert Koch

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 Koch and the cholera vibrio: a centenary.

On 2 February 1884 Robert Koch reported from Calcutta to the German Secretary of State for the Interior his reasoned conviction that the vibrio found in the intestines and stools of cholera victims was the causal agent of the disease.' This was the sixth of seven dispatches sent over a period of 24 weeks, all but the third of which were published in the German official gazette and thus made ava...

The Remote Control and Beyond : The Legacy of Robert Adler

Robert Adler, best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control, died in February at the age of 93. He had been active, as a consultant in ultrasonics, well beyond the age of 90. Indeed, the last of his approximately 180 U.S. patents is dated February 1, 2007—two weeks before his death. Adler was born in Vienna in 1913 and received a doctorate in physics from the University of Vien...