Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert ... that this same bacteria could cause disease. To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s ...

Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur both contributed research that supported the germ theory, which proposed that microorganisms cause disease. Following a request from Pasteur to Emperor Napoleon III ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease ... 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister ...

What now? Louis Pasteur next discovered the germ, or more precisely, the 'germ theory of disease', in which diseases are spread between people by microscopic organisms which might be shared ...

This 1930s educational film chronicles the advancements in medicine, emphasizing the pivotal role of Louis Pasteur in laying ... research in combating diseases. The film highlights the day-to ...

Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness ... disproved the chemical decomposition theory. Another popular theory of the ...

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 ...