In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation ... from which this article is adapted. Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working in his ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany ... To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s heels… Oh ja!

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope, discovered germs and revolutionised medical knowledge. Germs were given their name because they ...

What now? Louis Pasteur next discovered the germ, or more precisely, the 'germ theory of disease', in which diseases are spread between people by microscopic organisms which might be shared ...

Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur both contributed research that supported the germ theory, which proposed that microorganisms cause disease. Following a request from Pasteur to Emperor Napoleon III ...

Their ideas were largely ignored until Louis Pasteur carried out his own detailed experiments that disproved the chemical decomposition theory. Another popular theory of the time was spontaneous ...

But in a military hospital in Algeria, French doctor Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was taking a close look at a distinctive, granular pigment found in the spleens and other tissues of malaria victims ...