ANSWER: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist best known for the principle of pasteurization, fermentation and vaccination. Hailed today as a hero and a giant in ...

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

Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical criticism, had never tried his rabies vaccine on a human being before.

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 ...

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

In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world of airborne microbes.

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 ...

The Story of Louis Pasteur It couldn't have been an easy film to make, and the fact that it holds as much general interest as it does speaks volumes. But the producers couldn't avoid some dull ...

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.