Louis Pasteur: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Studies of Pasteur’s life and work include Émile Duclaux, Pasteur: The History of a Mind (1920, reissued 1973; originally published in French, 1896), a scientific and philosophical work written by a collaborator of Pasteur; François Dagognet, Méthodes et doctrine dans l’œuvre de Pasteur (1967), primarily a detailed work of methodology; René J. Dubos, Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science (1950, reprinted 1993), more philosophical than scientific; Elie Metchnikoff (I.I. Mechnikov), The Founders of Modern Medicine: Pasteur, Koch, Lister (1939, reprinted special edition, 2006; originally published in French, 1933), written by an important scholar who worked with Pasteur; Jacques Nicolle, Louis Pasteur: A Master of Scientific Enquiry (1961; originally published in French, 1953), and Louis Pasteur: The Story of His Major Discoveries (1961), both works giving a complete authoritative review of Pasteur’s discoveries, and Pasteur: sa vie, sa méthode, ses découvertes (1969), an account of Pasteur’s life and work; and René Vallery-Radot, The Life of Pasteur, 2 vol. (1902, reissued 1960; originally published in French, 1900), written by Pasteur’s son-in-law, who was also his secretary, a fundamental work on the life of Pasteur but weak from the scientific point of view. A modern account of Pasteur’s life and contributions to science is Patrice Debré, Louis Pasteur (1998; originally published in French, 1994).
Article Contributors
Primary Contributors
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Agnes Ullmann
Professor Emeritus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Other Contributors
- Alex van de Sandt
Other Encyclopedia Britannica Contributors
Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Louis Pasteur, a child of the Jura, a man for the world. | Sep 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Louisville - J.B. Speed School of Engineering - Louis Pasteur. | Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Deleted media. | Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Louis Pasteur. | Apr 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Louis Pasteurs Views on Creation, Evolution, and the Genesis of Germs (PDF). | Nov 14, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Liberty University - Scholars Crossing - Louis Pasteurs Views on Creation, Evolution, and the Genesis of Germs (PDF). | Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The History Listen - Louis Pasteur and Australia's war on rabbits. | Jul 21, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BMC - Molecular Medicine - Louis Pasteur and Molecular Medicine: A Centennial Celebration. | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Louis Pasteur, a child of the Jura, a man for the world. | Dec 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Universidad Veracruzana - Louis Pasteur�s Views on Creation, Evolution, and the Genesis of Germs. | Sep 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Universidad Veracruzana - Louis Pasteur�s Views on Creation, Evolution, and the Genesis of Germs. | Sep 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Potters Wax Museum - Louis Pasteur. | Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Core - Louis Pasteur, from crystals of life to vaccination. | Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Louis Pasteur, from crystals of life to vaccination. | Nov 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Institut Pasteur - Our History. | Sep 04, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Jul 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Pasteur Louis. | Jul 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Louis Pasteur, the father of immunology? | Apr 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science History Institute - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Dec 02, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Louis Pasteur: Biography and Quotes. | Aug 21, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Louis Pasteur. | May 02, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Louis Pasteur. | May 02, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 12, 2021 | ||
| Added a photo of Le Bel Institute, University of Strasbourg, formerly known as Louis Pasteur University. | Jan 15, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jul 25, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 01, 2016 | ||
| Changed "microbe" to "agent" in section describing Pasteur's development of a vaccine against rabies. |
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Jun 20, 2014 | |
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT Program - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Biography of Pasteur Louis. | Mar 14, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Zephyrus - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemical Heritage Foundation - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and Technology for Kids! - Louis Pasteur Facts. | Mar 15, 2012 | ||
| Added image of Louis Pasteur and image of a tribute at the time of his death from Le Petit Journal. | Feb 02, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: Window To The Universe - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Apr 24, 2009 | ||
| Article replaced. | Apr 16, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Apr 16, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | May 28, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Queen Elizabeth II. | Mar 13, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Access Excellence - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Mar 12, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Mar 12, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Mar 12, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: History Learning Site - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Mar 12, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Louis Pasteur. | Mar 12, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Queen Elizabeth II. | Feb 20, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 25, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - College of Communication - Biography of Dan Rather. | Jan 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 16, 2000 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |