The German physician and scientist Robert Koch (1843-1910) was pioneer in identification of pathogens, winning the Nobel Prize for his work on tuberculosis. Gradmann (history of medicine, University o
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2011 - formerly known as ECDL (European Conference on Research and Adva
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