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 short biography gives all the essential facts of Pasteur's life and work. Commencing with his early days, the salient features of his researches and discoveries are summarised in ...

It was this discovery of life in germland that allowed Pasteur to develop the cure for rabies. The real story comes to a rather dramatic end. Joseph Meister, the boy whose life Louis Pasteur saved ...

But as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch popularized the germ theory of infection in the late 1870s, scientists began searching for a bacterial species responsible for the disease. Two scientists even ...

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, well-respected ... His efforts from 1865 to 1870 led to the discovery that the disease affecting ...

Following Louis Pasteur’s discovery of germ theory, Joseph Lister found a way to kill germs in an operating theatre. This reduced the risk of infection. Joseph Lister was a Scottish surgeon.

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 ...