Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness could be prevented by vaccines. At the time, it was widely believed that ...

“You mean Pasteur,” he said. “I’ll take you there.” Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical ...

While working with the French wine industry in 1848, Dr. Louis Pasteur studied tartaric acid, a blackish purple substance that grows on the back of wine barrels. By studying this byproduct of wine ...

This 1930s educational film chronicles the advancements in medicine, emphasizing the pivotal role of Louis Pasteur in laying the foundation for modern medical practices. It illustrates the ...

Zimmer creates a highly relevant and gripping history of the study of the air that spans from Louis Pasteur holding a glass globe on a glacier to scientists racing to fight COVID-19 during the ...

But the virus’s incubation period also made rabies of interest to Pasteur—already a famous scientist in France—as a candidate for a new type of vaccine. “The time from the bite to the sickness was ...

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope, discovered germs and revolutionised medical knowledge. Germs were given their name because they ...

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 ...

Louis Pasteur’s trepidation at injecting a child with the first rabies vaccine might have reflected his private knowledge of its lack of prior animal testing. NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced ...