Discoveries made by Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) in microbiology and infectious diseases have been of great benefit in a diverse range of fields, including human health, veterinary medicine and ...

Pasteur was born 200 years ago this December, the most significant scientist birthday bicentennial since Charles Darwin’s in 2009. And Pasteur ranked behind only Darwin among the most exceptional ...

In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world of airborne microbes. Credit...Antoine Maillard Supported by By Carl Zimmer ...

Although by the mid-nineteenth century evidence existed for an association between micoorganisms and disease, it was the combined efforts of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch that created the germ theory ...

1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests his rabies vaccine on a human subject. Pasteur, a French chemist and biologist, began closely studying bacteria while investigating the cause of souring in milk ...

Washing hands, cutting hair short, drinking filtered water and boiled milk, maintaining a clean home, and other daily habits come from the ideas promoted by the French chemist, Louis Pasteur, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. When the great 19 th century chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But because he died in 1895, six years before the first Nobel Prize was awarded, that prize isn’t on his resume. Had he lived in ...

Louis Pasteur, the man who would go on to save millions of lives, is remembered as one of the great pioneers of modern medicine. His theory about microscopic life forms and their link to contagion and ...

The Pasteur Institute in Paris, known for its world-altering scientific research, has been making advancements in another field: the musical arts. By Jessica Roy Reporting from Paris The Pasteur ...

Rodney E. Rohde has received funding from the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP), American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS), U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA), and other ...