Some of the greatest scientific discoveries haven't resulted in Nobel Prizes. Louis Pasteur, who lived from 1822 to 1895, is arguably the world's best-known microbiologist. He is widely credited ...

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist who proved that germs cause disease, developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies and created the process of pasteurization.

Louis Pasteur, who lived from 1822 to 1895, is arguably the world’s best-known microbiologist. In 1861, he proved a contentious theory about how food and drink spoils.

On World Rabies Day – which is also the anniversary of French microbiologist Louis Pasteur’s death – a virologist reflects on the achievements of this visionary scientist.

Two centuries after his birth, Louis Pasteur's work on pasteurization, germ theory and vaccines is as relevant as ever.

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 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 ...

In 1885, Louis Pasteur made medical history by developing the first rabies vaccine during the treatment of a boy bitten 14 times. This breakthrough marked a turning point in the fight against a ...

Pasteur began to study chicken cholera in 1877 and by the following year had succeeded in culturing the causative organism, Pasteurella multocida.