Louis Pasteur: The Father of Microbiology

by Stephen Feinstein

Provide readers with a biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist whose insatiable thirst for discovery not only saved the French silk and wine industries from ruin, and in the latter case, gave us pasteurization, but who also developed the first successful vaccine against rabies, a scourge of nineteenth-century life, but even more, Pasteur's study of microorganisms gave rise to the field of microbiology and provided a framework on which...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598450786
• ISBN13: 9781598450781
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8