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The details of the negotiations that led recently to the purchase for presentation to the French Nation of the birthplace of Louis Pasteur, at Dole, France, through a gift of John D. Rockefeller, have just become public. A committee had been formed in France under M. Pieyre, Mayor of Dole, to raise a sum of money to buy the house …

Paris, Sept. 20, 1895 — The following information concerning the closing hours of Prof. Pasteur’s life has been obtained by the correspondent of The United Press, who has just returned from Villeneuve: Prof. Pasteur’s condition became seriously worse on the evening of Friday last. Albuminuria was observed, the heart became very weak, and painful and violent spasms became frequent. About …

Louis Pasteur provided groundbreaking scientific leadership in many fields. However, it was in December of 1885, just six months after his first successful treatment of a rabies victim, that Pasteur was to be internationally recognized for his work in medicine. On the other side of the Atlantic, in Newark, New Jersey, four boys had been bitten by a dog suspected …

There is a time in every man’s life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered. It can happen with age or with tragedy or closeness of death. I am lying here at age 45, not able to feel my left side. Not knowing if this stroke that …

It was Louis Pasteur who continued the spirit of the Ecole Polytechnique into late-Nineteenth century France. He saw very clearly the acute crisis that France had been going through since 1815, and he identified precisely the problem that had crippled the nation since the Congress of Vienna. The joy of discovery had been killed in the school system, and the …

There may be negative people who will complain to you that Pasteur was an imperialist and a Bonapartist. Don’t bother with that sort of criticism. Those who concentrate their energies on the mistakes of great men, destroy, in themselves, their own ability to understand wisdom. On the other hand, those who concentrate on contributions to mankind by great men and …

“The large scale production of lager beer was only made possible by the work of Louis Pasteur and Dr. Emil Hansen from the Carlsberg Laboratory in the 1880s.” Read the full article produced by the Carlsberg Laboratory here.

[Footnote: Read before the French Academy of Sciences, May 3, 1880. Published in Comptes rendus, de l’Academie des Sciences, xc., pp. 1033-44.] When I began the studies now occupying my attention, [Footnote: In 1880. Especially engaged in the study of chicken cholera and the attenuation of virulence–Translator.] I was attempting to extend the germ theory to certain common diseases. I …

Modern History Sourcebook: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): Physiological Theory of Fermentation, 1879 Table of Contents Author’s Preface – Preface Section I – On the Relations Existing Between Oxygen and Yeast Part I Part II Section II – Fermentation in Saccharine Fruits Immersed in Carbonic Acid Gas Section III – Reply to Certain Critical Observations of the German Naturalists, Oscar Brefeld and …