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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

In the middle 1800s, a French industrialist who distilled alcohol from sugar beets ran into a problem when some of his fermentation vats stopped producing alcohol. His request for help from a ...