Louis Pasteur was one of the first ... microbes would appear within days. Pasteur realised that microbes were responsible for spoiling food, and just as importantly for France’s economy, wine.

In an effort to save the silk-production industry, the French government persuaded Louis Pasteur ... and hygiene in human disease. Pasteur began his career in science as a crystallographer ...

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 ...

Louis Pasteur’s trepidation at injecting a child with the first rabies vaccine might have reflected his private knowledge of its lack of prior animal testing. A series of rodent experiments showed ...