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

An earlier version of this article incorrectly said it was founded by Charles Koch.

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The 20 bills of the three-week Paul Taylor Dance Company season at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, through Sunday, include 12 dances by Taylor, the masterly modern-dance choreographer who died in 2018.

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A group of 18 wealthy families, including the Mars family, the Koch family, the Walton family, initiated a campaign in the 1990s to get rid of the estate tax.

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The heavily Republican city for years hosted the state’s Republican Party convention and donor retreats organized by right-wing libertarians David and Charles Koch.

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Subsidiaries of Koch Industries export nitrogen for fertilizer used by American farmers.

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