Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine and Bacteriology

by Thomas D. Brock

Robert Koch's story is a stirring example of how a lone country doctor can rise above all odds to become a true scientific revolutionary. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1905, Koch is best known today... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555811434
• ISBN13: 9781555811433
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: ASM Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Robert Koch: a life in medicine and bacteriology

Writing scientific historical biography that is readable is a difficult task, and Prof. Brock has suceeded in this. A great book about a great man, that in simple language communicates the excitement of a revolutionary time in medicine where a few people in the space of 20 years changed our world forever.I loved this book and couldn't put it down, and this is in part due to the author communicating his own enthusiasm for his subject. If you are looking for a gift for anyone working in bioscience or biomedicine then you couldn't do better than this book.