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Louis Pasteur
A Nature of Science biography of Louis Pasteur. As a professor of chemistry, Pasteur was fascinated by microbes and their role in causing disease.
Pasteur went on to develop a theory and method of 'antisepsis'; pasteurisation to kill harmful microbes in food and drink and a cure for rabies.
The chapters are:
1. Louis becomes a scientist
2. Fermentations
3. Crocodiles and bad soup
4. A theory of disease
5. Farmyard microbes
6. Mad dog disease
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