A time line of Robert Koch life
- 1843 Was born in Clausthal, Germany
- 1862 He graduated from high school
- 1866 Graduated from medical school
- 1882 Published his findings on tuberculosis
- 1884 Resided and researched at Grant Medical College in Bombay state of India and isolating Vibrio cholerae.
- 1891 Relinquished his Professorship and became a director of the Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases
- 1897 Koch was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- 1900 He arrived as part of an expedition to German New Guinea, observed the phenomenon of acquired immunity
- 1905 Koch won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with tuberculosis.
- 1906 Research on tuberculosis and tropical diseases won him the Prussian Order Pour le Merite
- 1908 Robert Koch Medal, established to honour the greatest living physicians
- 1910 Koch suffered a heart attack and never made a complete recovery
- 1910 On 27 May, three days after giving a lecture on his tuberculosis research at the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Koch died in Baden-Baden at the age of 66
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Following his death, the Institute named its establishment after him in his honour.