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

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 ...

While working with the French wine industry in 1848, Dr. Louis Pasteur studied tartaric acid, a blackish purple substance that grows on the back of wine barrels. By studying this byproduct of wine ...

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 ...

A catastrophic clash of empires, the trail of a literary genius, influential India, Louis Pasteur’s discovery and more.

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope, discovered germs and revolutionised medical knowledge. Germs were given their name because they ...

Ever since Louis Pasteur developed the first rabies vaccine in 1885, the world has had a reliable defence against one of the most terrifying diseases transmitted by dog bites. The tragic death of ...

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 ...

THIS short biography gives all the essential facts of Pasteur's life and work. Commencing with his early days, the salient features of his researches and discoveries are summarised in ...