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Robert Koch(Koch' theory).

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This theory was actually first founded by Louis Pasteur in 1861. Koch was a scientist that founded many other diseases, with thanks to the germ theory. Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur were rivals and it was with thanks to this that they kept on pushing each other to do better.

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