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 for ...

(WHTM) — For six weeks, Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard, both affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure, had been keeping watch over glass phials, some containing dog blood, some filled with dog ...

Albert Edelfelt’s painting of Louis Pasteur conducting an experiment in his lab. Credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons “Spontaneous generation” was the idea that living organisms can spring into ...

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 putrefaction – ...