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Koch House Museum – Family Nest of Nobel Prize Winner

One of the landmarks in Clausthal-Zellerfeld is the house-museum of scientistand microbiologist Robert Koch. The future winner of Nobel Prize in physiologyor medicine was the third of 13 children in the family of Hermann and MathildeKoch. His father Robert was a mining engineer in Clausthal. Robert promisedwell since childhood. At 4, he already could read and write, and later wasalways the best student in class.

Clausthal-Zellerfeld is a house in which the Koch family lived. Now it isthe house-museum of Koch. Here you can get acquainted with the conditions inwhich the future great scientist grew, as well as see his personal belongingsand items that belonged to his family. It is known that in 1862 Robert Kochleft his native Clausthal, and went to the University of Göttingen. Afterfinishing medical faculty there, he took up studies of different microbes. Aswe now know, these investigations led Koch to the discovery of pathogens ofvarious diseases: tuberculosis (tubercle bacillus), anthrax, cholera (Vibriocholerae). Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to science in1905.

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