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

“The continued lack of access for U.S. wine is inflicting real and lasting harm,” said Robert Koch, chief executive of Wine Institute.

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Mission specialist Christina Koch explained that the astronauts would be able to study the lunar surface in exquisite detail for a full three hours.

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Cato, a think tank co-founded by Charles Koch, has never relinquished its quest to privatize Social Security; the notion still occupies pride of place on the institution’s web page devoted to the program.

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On this episode of The Envelope, Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez open up about playing the Menendez brothers and ‘Andor’s’ Diego Luna reflects on 10 years as a ‘Star Wars’ revolutionary.

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The university’s general counsel, Anne Gentry, is married to a longtime conservative activist and executive with the Koch Foundation, Letiecq pointed out.

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