The French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur is best known for making milk, wine and beer safe to drink by killing microbes using heat. The technique, named ‘pasteurisation’ after him ...

Portrait of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization (Getty Images/mikroman6) ...

On July 6, 1885, a vaccine for rabies was administered successfully to a nine-year-old boy named Joseph Meister under the ...

A few weeks ago the front page of the U.S. Today carried a small insert with a photograph of Albert Einstein, with results of a poll taken and tabulated from a thousand Americans who were asked to … ...

Louis Pasteur’s breakthrough discoveries unlocked the world of microscopic organisms that live inside our bodies.

The father of pasteurization, germ theory, and three enormously important vaccines, Louis Pasteur was a brilliant but also fundamentally dishonest scientist. This is evident in the 102 lab ...

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 ...

PARIS—The Pasteur Institute, which over the past century has evolved into a major center of biomedical research, celebrate its centennial this week with unusual panache for such a venerable ...

The pupils of Louis Pasteur, in commemoration of his seventieth anniversary, have issued a medal made by O. Roty, in which the great scientist appears in left profile, wearing a cape and skull cap.

Albert Edelfelt’s painting of Louis Pasteur conducting an experiment in his lab. Credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons “Spontaneous generation” was the idea that living organisms can spring into ...