In the duchy of medical history, few achievements are as remarkable as the development of the rabies vaccine by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 1885. This groundbreaking ...

In an effort to save the silk-production industry, the French government persuaded Louis Pasteur ... with animals in general. A recent biography of Pasteur (shown to the right) outlines his ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany. *Mais oui! It was the Frenchman who landed the first punch. Pasteur was the first to challenge old barmy beliefs, hypothesising that ...