The chemist’s name was Louis Pasteur. Pasteur, who was also a pharmacist and microbiologist, would eventually gain worldwide renown for his contributions to germ theory, the discovery of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

That is how the story that was read to me as a young child began. It was about a man named Louis Pasteur who believed in himself and believed in the existence of germs. Because he believed in ...

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 ...