1822–1895 French chemist who discovered the germ theory of disease and pioneered preventive vaccination and microbiology.
Keywords: immunization; rabies; crystallography; pasteurization
Pasteur, Louis
G de Syon, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002452
| Further Reading | |
| book Debré P (1998) Louis Pasteur. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. | |
| book Dubos R (1988) La Leçon de Pasteur. Paris: Albin Michel. | |
| book Geison G (1995) The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Morange M (ed.) (1991) L'Institut Pasteur: contributions à son histoire. Paris: la Découverte. | |
| book Pasteur L (1870) Études sur la Maladie des Vers à Soie Moyen Pratique Assuré de la Combaltre et d'en Prévenir le Retour. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. | |
| book Pasteur L (1879) Studies on Fermentation, the Disease of Beer, their Causes, and the Means of Preventing them. London: Macmillan. | |
| Plotkin SA (1996) A hundred years of vaccination: the legacy of Louis Pasteur. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 15(5): 391. | |
