Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis.

Bush's daughter, Dorothy Bush Koch, was married there in 1992, the first ever to do so.

He remained in this post until his death ; " he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end " according to Christof Koch.

A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.

The most widely used submachine gun at the end of the 20th century was the Heckler & Koch MP5.

House where Robert Koch was born in Clausthal, Lower Saxony, Germany

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910 ) was a German physician.

Koch was born in Clausthal in the Harz Mountains, then part of Kingdom of Hanover, as the son of a mining official.

Koch published his findings in 1876, and was rewarded with a job at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin in 1880.

Koch was unaware of Pacini's work and made an independent discovery, and his greater preeminence allowed the discovery to be widely spread for the benefit of others.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

The now-defunct Robert Koch Hospital at Koch, Missouri ( south of St. Louis, Missouri ), was also named in his honor.

Because the construction efforts on Veliki Brijun Island were jeopardized by malaria outbreaks which occurred during summer months, and even Austrian steel industrialist Paul Kupelweiser himself fell ill with the disease, at the turn of the century Kupelweiser invited in Koch, who at the time was studying different forms of malaria and quinine-based treatments.

Beside this, Pasteur, along with Robert Koch ( who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905 ), founded bacteriology.

Koch was also famous for the discovery of the tubercle bacillus ( 1882 ) and the cholera bacillus ( 1883 ) and for his development of Koch's postulates.

HK was founded by engineers Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel in 1949 from the remnants of the Mauser company ; the company was registered in 1950.

It is a 9 mm, 18-round, double action only, semi-automatic / three-round burst capable polymer frame pistol manufactured by German arms firm Heckler & Koch GmbH ; the VP designation stands for Volkspistole (" The people's pistol "), and the designation 70 was for the year of the first edition: 1970.

On his return he established a private medical practice and small laboratory in Berlin-Steglitz, and in 1891 received a call from Robert Koch to join the staff at his Berlin Institute of Infectious Diseases, where in 1896 a new institute was established for Ehrlich ’ s specialization, the Institute for Serum Research and Testing ( Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung ), whose director he became.

Ostensibly, this was because of improvement in the regime ’ s record, although former United States Assistant Secretary of Defense Noel Koch later stated, " No one had any doubts about Iraqis ' continued involvement in terrorism ...

In 1994 James Sedares conducted a re-recording of the score performed by The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra ( which also included a suite from Bernstein's score for The Hallelujah Trail, issued by Koch Records ; Bernstein himself conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a performance released by RCA in 1997, but the original film soundtrack was not released until the following year by Rykodisc ( Varèse Sarabande reissued this album in 2004 ).

The infamous 1980s computer hacker Karl Koch was heavily influenced by The Illuminatus!

GnuPG was initially developed by Werner Koch.

It was named after German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, who invented it when working as an assistant to Robert Koch.

They also sponsored a letter-writing campaign to Mayor Lindsay in which the Greenwich Village Democratic Party and Congressman Ed Koch sent pleas to end raids on gay bars in the city.

In 2012, Walter Mondale, former Democratic Vice President of the United States, and Arne Carlson, former Republican governor of Minnesota, referred in an op-ed piece to the political activities of the Koch family and ALEC, saying:

The once mighty Tammany political machine, now deprived of its leadership, quickly faded from political importance, and by the mid-1960s it ceased to exist, its demise as the controlling group of the New York Democratic Party sealed when the Village Independent Democrats under Ed Koch wrested away control of the Manhattan party.

In 1963 Koch defeated DeSapio for the position of Democratic Party leader for the district which included Greenwich Village, and Koch won again in a 1965 rematch.

In 1977, Koch ran in the Democratic primary of the New York City mayoral election against incumbent Abe Beame, Bella Abzug and Mario Cuomo, among others.

In 1982, Koch ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York, losing the Democratic primary to Cuomo, who was then lieutenant governor.

In 1985, Koch again ran for re-election, this time on the Democratic and Independent tickets ; he defeated Liberal Party candidate Carol Bellamy and Republican candidate Diane McGrath with 78 % of the vote.

Koch became a controversial figure in the 1988 presidential campaign with his very public criticism of Democratic candidate Jesse Jackson, who had surprised many political observers by winning key primaries in March and running even with the front runner, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.

Cuomo was defeated by Ed Koch in the 1977 Democratic primary for the New York City mayoral election after being nominated by the Liberal Party.

He was elected Governor in 1982, defeating Koch in the 1982 Democratic primary and Republican businessman Lewis Lehrman in the general election.

Dinkins was elected Mayor of New York City on November 7, 1989, defeating three-term incumbent Mayor Ed Koch and two others in the Democratic primary and Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani in the general election.

Mayor Koch, the presumptive Democratic nominee, was politically damaged by the corruption in his administration and his handling of racial issues, and among the candidates Dinkins was his greatest challenger.

The history of the party dates back to June 1946, when a group led by Waldemar Koch took the initiative in refounding German Democratic Party.

In 1977, after Mario Cuomo lost the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York to Ed Koch, the Liberal Party endorsed Cuomo, who proceeded to again lose narrowly in the general election.

She was one of the first members of Congress to support gay rights, introducing the first federal gay rights bill, known as the Equality Act of 1974, with fellow Democratic New York City Representative, Ed Koch, a future mayor of New York City.

In the mayoral election that year, Beame finished third in the Democratic primary to Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo.

George Bush received endorsements from many Republicans, Democratic Senator Zell Miller of Georgia and former 12-year mayor of New York City Ed Koch.

In 1948, he served as chairman of the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, which held hearings on such matters as export control violations, for which Soviet spy William Remington was called in to testify ; the trial of Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch ; and the Mississippi Democratic Party's sale of postal jobs, which Mississippians from rural areas attested to purchasing.

His father, Vito John Fossella, Sr., served in various appointed positions in the city administrations of Democratic Mayors Edward I. Koch and Abraham D. Beame, then became a successful construction engineer.

He supported Mario Cuomo for governor over Koch during the 1982 Democratic Primary.

In 1985 Badillo considered a bid for mayor against Koch in the Democratic Primary.

Dick Morris ( who also receives a co-writing credit ), appears frequently, and features exclusive interviews with various political figures of the time, including David Frum, Georgia Democratic Senator Zell Miller, pundit Ann Coulter, and former Democratic New York City mayor Ed Koch.