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 ...

This Editorial highlights the legacy of Louis Pasteur, one of the founding fathers of microbiology, and the Institute he founded 120 years ago. Together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch ...

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 ...

Borne, science journalist Carl Zimmer roots the “mistake” in the past of a historically neglected field: aerobiology, or the science of airborne life. Zimmer begins his chronicle in the 19th century ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...