Koch

[koch, kawkh]

noun

1. Edward I., 1924–2013, U.S. politician: mayor of New York City 1977–89.

2. Robert 1843–1910, German bacteriologist and physician: Nobel Prize 1905.

Koch

/ kɔx /

noun

1. Robert (ˈroːbɛrt). 1843–1910, German bacteriologist, who isolated the anthrax bacillus (1876), the tubercle bacillus (1882), and the cholera bacillus (1883): Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1905

Koch

1. German bacteriologist who demonstrated that specific diseases are caused by specific microorganisms. He identified the bacilli that cause anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera, and he showed that fleas and rats are responsible for transmission of the bubonic plague and that the tsetse fly is responsible for transmitting sleeping sickness. Koch won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1905.

Example Sentences

American Ballet Theatre’s just-completed 3-week season at the David H. Koch Theater offered a rich array of works as the company continues to celebrate its 85th anniversary.

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It was 2008, the year billionaire Bill Koch filed lawsuits against multiple wine auction houses, alleging that they’d sold him hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fake wine.

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In its early years, Cambridge College attracted funding from the Rockefeller family, David Koch and Charles Feeney, who made a fortune from duty-free shops.

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He’s mainly known for upcycling the flayed skin from his neighbor’s corpses into household furnishings, allegedly inspired by Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch.

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Don’t believe the hype about AI as a job killer for older workers, says Michael Koch, chairman of the QSR AI Research Lab and chief executive of HubKonnect, which helps marketers with AI.

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