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 ...

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 ...

Together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch, Louis Pasteur was one of the founding fathers of microbiology 1. Originally trained as a chemist, Pasteur carried out experiments that finally laid to ...

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 rabies vaccine might have reflected his private knowledge of its lack of prior animal testing. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

which enabled scientists to see germs and bacteria in more detail than had been possible before. The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope ...