Word: koch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this alarm the Norwegian Government remained deaf, ostensibly at least, thus conciliating the Danish Government. Not so certain patriotic Norwegian hunters! Vowing that they would get to East Greenland before the official Danish expeditions led by Dr. Lauge Koch, they improvised their own expedition, rushed off to puffin-land, took the puffin by the bill and nailed Norway's colors to Mygg-bukta...
Centers: W. Casey, F. Crane, R. Frazier, A. Koch, Jr., J. Lockwood, L. McCabe, C. Ware...
...common doubtless with many other of his former students I appreciated your record of Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party (TIME, April 14), but your otherwise excellent account was marred by one misleading statement, that which classed his European prototypes as follows: "Paul Ehrlich (discoverer of salvarsan); Koch (discoverer of the bacilli of anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera): Pasteur (vaccines)." If I may be forgiven a seeming irreverence, this is much as though you had classified the founders of a great religion somewhat as follows...
...disease, and thus founded the science of bacteriology and established the basis of modern medicine and surgery. Pasteur, strange to say, was himself not a physician but a chemist and was studying fermentations when he made his monumental discovery. Thus it was left for one of his followers, Koch, a medical man. to identify certain disease germs. Considerably later Ehrlich, working with colors as an index of the susceptibility of micro-organisms to drugs, succeeded in formulating one invaluable remedy. These investigators deserve full credit for their contributions to our knowledge of pathogenic organisms, but neither is to be compared...
...tradition, to teach Greek and Latin instead of studying medicine. He realized his mistake after a year, went back to Yale, then to the College of Physicians & Surgeons (Manhattan), then to Strassburg, Leipzig, Vienna, Berlin. Breslau, where he rubbed elbows with mountainous medical names: Paul Ehrlich (discoverer of salvarsan); Koch (discoverer of the bacilli of anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera); Pasteur (vaccines...