“I’ll take you there.” Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical criticism, had never tried his rabies vaccine on a ...

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 ...

In 1878, long before he died and already an international hero, Louis Pasteur told his family never to show anyone his laboratory notebooks. More than a century later, Gerald Geison, a professor ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany ... were fighting each other on the battlefield as well as in the lab, so their research was charged with epic significance.

In an effort to save the silk-production industry, the French government persuaded Louis Pasteur, well-respected for his work on fermentation, to study the problem — despite the fact that he had ...

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 ...