This was Pasteur’s Germ Theory in practice ... An engaging animated summary of the work of pioneers, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, outlining how their national feud lead to great medical ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Joseph Lister was able to make a much more ...

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 ...

The germ theory of disease was only in its infancy ... It was March 24, 1882, and a little-known German physician named ...