Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working ... the path in the glare of sunlight bouncing off the ice. When the scientist reached an altitude of 2,000 meters, he finally stopped.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A history of aerobiology would normally be a book that would have little interest beyond the science community. But in ...

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The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope ... In doing so, he created the science of bacteriology. He identified the bacteria which caused ...

Louis Pasteur’s trepidation at injecting a child with the first ... After widespread government layoffs, scientists worry about the uncertain future of research and advocate action to rise above the ...