Robert Koch
In 1998, Brock helped update and contribute to a new version of René Dubos' 1960 book, "Pasteur and Modern Science". In 1999, he translated and edited "Milestones in Microbiology 1546 to 1940", a collection of the most important papers in early microbiology, including work by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister. Also released in the same year was Brock's "Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine and Bacteriology", a biography of German physician Robert Koch.