Department of Bacteriology, College of Medicine, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa After considering various subjects for this occasion, I decided, because it is the 100th Anniversary of some of Louis Pasteur’s most important research and publications, to pay respect to him and, as Emil Roux stated, “relate what nobody should be ignorant of in Pasteur’s life, and what …
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Translated by Pierre Beaudry Pasteur, Louis. Correspondance : 1840-1895 / de Pasteur. Tome III / réunie Open letter to Robert Koch, December 25, 1882. Sir, In 1881, you have attacked my works too quickly and without due consideration, in your first volume of the German Imperial Health Office published, in Geneva on September 5, 1882, and, meanwhile, I have refuted …
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Originally printed in the American Druggist: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Practical Pharmacy in 1892 On Tuesday, Dec. 27th, M. Louis Pasteur, the distinguished biologist and chemist, celebrated his seventieth birthday at his home in Paris. The occasion was one of great pomp, undisturbed by the political scandals of the hour. M. Pasteur was given a magnificent ovation. The famous …
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Born at Dôle, 27th December 1822 – Died at Garches, near Paris, 29th December 1895 Originally printed in the Journal of pathology and bacteriology in 1896 By German Sims Woodhead, M.D. THERE has passed from amongst us one of the greatest men of the century, not before his time, but great in work accomplished, having won the esteem of all …
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Typescript of a speech presented at the Colloque du Centenaire de l’Institut Pasteur, October 5-9, 1987 by JOSHUA LEDERBERG The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 INTRODUCTION: Louis Pasteur and the Pasteur Institute Nothing could have given me greater gratification than this invitation. For me, as for my entire generation of scientifically inclined youth, Louis Pasteur was a global culture …
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Originally published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine for an exhibit in observance of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Louis Pasteur. On December 27, 1822, Louis Pasteur, son of a tanner and former sergeant in the armies of Napoleon, was born in obscurity at Dôle, France. Today his name is known and honored throughout the world for his …
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Originally published in “The New Age of Health Laboratories 1885-1915” a brochure for an exhibit held in May-October 1987 by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Among the very first of the large health research institutes, and one that became a model for many others, was the institution built for and by Louis Pasteur in Paris. During the quarter-century prior …
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Recherches sur la capacité de saturation de l’acide arsénieux. Etudes des arsénites de potasse, de soude et d’ammoniaque. présentées A LA FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE PARIS, LE AOUT 1847, Par M. L. PASTEUR, Ancien élève de l’Ecole Normale, agrégé préparateur de Chimie à cette Ecole. PARIS, IMPRIMERIE DE BACHELIER, Rue du Jardinet, ia. Un des travaux qui ont été les …
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(Communiquée par M. Balard – 1848) Le dimorphisme du soufre est un fait généralement connu. Il y a longtemps que M. Mitscherlich a détermina forme des cristaux naturels, déjà étudiée par Haüy, et celle des cristaux obtenus artificiellement par fusion ou par dissolution dans le sulfure de carbone. Les cristaux obtenus par la fusion du soufre sont des prismes obliques, …
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