{"id":2301,"date":"2017-12-10T12:36:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T07:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T06:40:52","slug":"robert-koch-why-google-celebrating-robert-koch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/robert-koch-why-google-celebrating-robert-koch-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Robert Koch? Why Google celebrating Robert Koch today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RTIwala Team<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/category\/explains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Explains<\/a> why\u00a0Robert Koch is Trending? Also, read Short Biography of Robert Koch and his discoveries? So today&#8217;s neither Rober Koch&#8217;s birth anniversary (which is tomorrow) nor he died on Dec 10, then why today?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\n      var aax_size='728x90';\n      var aax_pubname = 's707-21';\n      var aax_src='302';\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/c.amazon-adsystem.com\/aax2\/assoc.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we all know that Google always celebrates the birth, significant day and award anniversary of people, places and things (inventions) by dedicating an artistic doodle for them. Why Google across the world Celebrating Rober Koch and discoveries as today as he was<em> born on 11 Dec<\/em>, <strong><em>not<\/em> <\/strong>on Dec 10.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2303\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190412191409\/http:\/\/blog.rtiwala.com:80\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2303 \" src=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/robert_koch_6909161361.jpg\" alt=\"RTIwala Explains Who was Robert Koch? Why Google celebrating Robert Koch today?\" width=\"151\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creative Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who was Rober Koch (short biography)?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch<\/b>\u00a0was a <a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/fridtjof-nansen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prominent German\u00a0physician<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0microbiologist who was born on 11 December 1843. He was an autodidact as with the aid of the newspapers, he taught himself how to read. Just after three semesters, <a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/rukhmabai-and-top-5-unknown-facts-about-rukhmabai-raut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he left life science to study medicine<\/a> and attended to the University of Gottingen, where he became influenced by Jacob Henle, a professor at the university who posited that infectious diseases were caused by living, parasitic organisms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[amazon_link asins=&#8217;B0177N9IRI,B01DN8TCEU,B01LL8VCZG,B01MQZHACT,B01DN8TB5U,B01FZBHC22,B00NNOL09A,B00V3ALRK8&#8242; template=&#8217;ProductCarousel&#8217; store=&#8217;wwwrtiwalain-21&#8242; marketplace=&#8217;IN&#8217; link_id=&#8217;8b3bad75-dd77-11e7-af2e-6b80a91e0a66&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a lengthy period of study, he graduated medical school in 1866. His life then took an <a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/china-warning-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unexpected turn when the Franco-Prussian War broke<\/a> out in 1870. Koch served as a surgeon during the fierce fighting and following the war\u2019s conclusion, went to work for the Imperial Department of Health. It was here he developed the technique for growing bacteria, which would prove a vital contribution to microbiology and the study of deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>Why Google Doodle for Robert Koch (facts)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the Official <a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/tag\/google-doodle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Doodle<\/a> blog, Google across the world celebrating Robert Koch. Because on this day in 1905, German physician and microbiologist Robert Koch was <a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/rw-explains-why-is-google-celebrating-107th-birthday-of-s-chandrasekhar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/rw-explains-why-is-google-celebrating-107th-birthday-of-s-chandrasekhar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rw Explains Why is Google Celebrating the 107th birthday of S Chandrasekhar?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We all know that Rober Koch dedicated his life to studying germs \u2013 some of the tiniest of living organisms on Earth \u2013\u00a0and how they cause infectious diseases. Countless lives have been saved <strong><em>thanks to his role in proving the revolutionary idea<\/em><\/strong> that germs cause diseases, and in identifying the bacterium for anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis. And, the best thing is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Robert Kock didn&#8217;t take any benefit out of it<\/span> rather dedicated his work for the benefit of the whole mankind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/fridtjof-nansen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who was Fridtjof Nansen? Why Google Doodle on his 156th Birth Anniversary?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, today&#8217;s Google Doodle designed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophiediao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sophie Diao<\/a> illustrates potato slices \u2013 the original media he used to isolate pure bacterial cells to help with his research. Koch experimented with potato slices until <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his assistant<\/span>, <strong><em>Julius Petri, invented the Petri dish<\/em><\/strong> (also depicted in the Doodle, and bearing Koch\u2019s image).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[amazon_link asins=&#8217;B00EPD9PN6,B01FXQVTJ6,B01N0ANN14,B071WC7HXZ,B00S1NB6WE,B00VV0FOHW,B016VYAWA6,B013BN72GW,B01D2SCZKO&#8217; template=&#8217;ProductCarousel&#8217; store=&#8217;wwwrtiwalain-21&#8242; marketplace=&#8217;IN&#8217; link_id=&#8217;661cb1ea-dd78-11e7-abcb-0142bca9034f&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liked the article, review or interview? Then please <strong><em>Share<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Comment<\/em><\/strong> to express your views on it. 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