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Louis Pasteur

Patrice Debré
translated by Elborg Forster

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The most extensive, balanced, and detailed account of Pasteur's life, struggles and contributions yet written

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Distinguished French immunologist and physician Patrice Debré offers an extensive, balanced, and detailed account of Louis Pasteur's life, struggles, and contributions. Drawing heavily on Pasteur's own scientific notebooks and writings, Debré presents a complete critical account of his discoveries and the controversies they raised with other scientists and occasionally with his closest associates.

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Trained in physics and chemistry, beginning his career as a teacher of those subjects and a researcher in crystallography, Pasteur as a young man would not have seemed likely to make an international reputation in medical research. But he did, and Debré in this fine biography traces the steps in the transition and illuminates Pasteur's many achievements in the field.

Splendid.

Writing in an engaging style, the author has created a balanced and detailed account of Pasteur's personal and professional life... Highly recommended.

Originally published in France to commemorate the centennial of Pasteur's death and now deftly rendered in English, this masterful biography offers the most complete portrait yet of a multifaceted genius.

Debré's biography contributes substantially to an understanding of the scientific, material, personal, and institutional circumstances of the major experimental discoveries commonly credited to Pasteur.

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Trim Size
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9
Pages
600
ISBN
9780801865299
Illustration Description
42 b&w illus.
Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Preface to the French Edition
Acknowledgments
1. My Father Is A Hero
2. Crystals: A New Law
3. The Philosopher's Stone
4. The World of the Liquefied Forests
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Foreword
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Preface to the French Edition
Acknowledgments
1. My Father Is A Hero
2. Crystals: A New Law
3. The Philosopher's Stone
4. The World of the Liquefied Forests
5. Fermentation and Life
6. Rue D'Ulm Revisited
7. The So-Called Spontaneous Generations
8. The Microscope and The Silkworm
9. Industrial Pasteurization
10. A Chemist Among the Doctors
11. Anthrax in Sheep and Chickens
12. Culture Broths
13. From One Academy to Another
14. The Wager of Pouilly-Le-Fort
15. Rabies Must Be Defeated!
16. The Capstone
17. The Last Life Sciences
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Patrice Debré

Patrice Debré heads the biological immunology laboratory at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and directs a research unit associated with the French National Center for Scientific Research. He has also published a biographical study of the French Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod.
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Elborg Forster

Elborg Forster's translations for Johns Hopkins include Medieval Marriage by Georges Duby and Illness and Self in Society by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret.