Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany. *Mais oui! It was the Frenchman who landed the first punch. Pasteur was the first to challenge old barmy beliefs, hypothesising that ...

That is how the story that was read to me as a young child began. It was about a man named Louis Pasteur who believed in himself and believed in the existence of germs. Because he believed in ...

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 ...