Berlin

== Health ==
[[File:Charité vom Futurium aus.jpg|thumbnail|[[Charité]]]]
Berlin has a long history of discoveries in medicine and innovations in medical technology.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/magazin/wissen/Elitewettbewerb-Universitaeten;art304,2400973|title=Berlin leuchtet| first1=Anja| last1=Kühne| first2=Tilmann| last2=Warnecke| publisher=Der Tagesspiegel| date=17 October 2007| access-date=18 December 2016|language=de| archive-date=22 June 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622052142/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/magazin/wissen/Elitewettbewerb-Universitaeten;art304,2400973|url-status=live}}</ref> The modern history of medicine has been significantly influenced by scientists from Berlin. [[Rudolf Virchow]] was the founder of cellular pathology, while [[Robert Koch]] developed vaccines for anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.charite.de/en/the_charite/about_us/history/| title=History of the Charité of Berlin| publisher=Charité| date=2015| access-date=14 February 2016|archive-date=20 March 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320005731/https://www.charite.de/en/the_charite/about_us/history/| url-status=live}}</ref> For his life's work Koch is seen as one of the founders of modern medicine.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCVnOb6VXmg | title=Louis Pasteur vs Robert Koch: The History of Germ Theory | website=YouTube | access-date=7 January 2024 | archive-date=30 January 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130055659/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCVnOb6VXmg | url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Charité]] complex (Universitätsklinik Charité) is the largest [[university hospital]] in Europe, tracing back its origins to the year 1710. More than half of all German Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, including [[Emil von Behring]], Robert Koch and [[Paul Ehrlich]], have worked at the Charité. The Charité is spread over four campuses and comprises around 3,000 beds, 15,500 staff, 8,000 students, and more than 60 operating theaters, and it has a turnover of two billion euros annually.<ref name=charite_facts>{{cite web |url=https://www.charite.de/en/the_charite/about_us/facts_figures/ |title=Facts & Figures |author=Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |language=en |access-date=27 June 2020 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622171444/https://www.charite.de/en/the_charite/about_us/facts_figures/ |url-status=live }}</ref>