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  2. Louis Pasteur - Wikipedia

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    Louis Pasteur ForMemRS (/ ˈ l uː i p æ ˈ s t ɜːr /, French: [lwi pastœʁ] ⓘ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.

  3. History of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] In 1877, French biologists Louis Pasteur and Jules Francois Joubert observed that cultures of anthrax bacilli, when contaminated with other bacteria, could be successfully inhibited. [10] Reporting in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, they concluded: Neutral or slightly alkaline urine is an excellent medium for the bacteria.

  4. Pasteur Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur, pronounced [ɛ̃stity pastœʁ]) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. The institute was founded on 4 June 1887 and ...

  5. Koch–Pasteur rivalry - Wikipedia

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    Jean Baptiste Pasteur, the only son of Louis and Marie Pasteur, was a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War. The tone set by this war contributed to the rivalry between Koch and Pasteur. [ 1 ] The "German Problem", as Germany increasingly gained scientific, technological, and industrial dominance, fed tensions among European nations. [ 3 ]

  6. Timeline of medicine and medical technology - Wikipedia

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    1861 – Louis Pasteur discovers the Germ Theory; 1867 – Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, based partly on Pasteur's work. 1870 – Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease. 1878 – Ellis Reynolds Shipp graduates from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and begins practice in ...

  7. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.

  8. HPV 'cures' are popping up online, but here's the truth about ...

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    The goal is to “inoculate” people to misinformation with facts around the vaccine, said Dannell Boatman, an assistant professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine. The HPV vaccine ...

  9. History of virology - Wikipedia

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    Despite his other successes, Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) was unable to find a causative agent for rabies and speculated about a pathogen too small to be detected using a microscope. [1] In 1884, the French microbiologist Charles Chamberland (1851–1931) invented a filter – known today as the Chamberland filter – that had pores smaller than ...