The Legacy of Robert KochSurmise, search, substantiate

How did a country physician in 19th century Europe emerge as an icon in the world of medicine for all times to come? What inspires and motivates a discoverer to achieve what many observed and debated before him but were unable to achieve? What sweat and toil culminate in irrefutable evidence that peers accept and generations follow, expand and investigate? Is a landmark discovery, invention or innovation merely an idea whose time has come? The succeeding paragraphs illustrate how one man’s life and times provide an answer to these complex questions and forever relegate the pre-Koch era of tuberculosis (TB) to antiquity.