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French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
There is widespread repetition of a claim that Louis Pasteur recanted germ theory on his deathbed, saying variations of “Bernard was right — the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.” Multipl...
The main 19th-century arguments against germ theory grouped into three themes: defense of and miasma/ environmental explanations; skepticism rooted in and contested experiments (notably the Pouchet–Pa...
The short answer: there is no reliable primary-source evidence that Louis Pasteur renounced germ theory on his deathbed; the famous quote "Bernard was right — the germ is nothing, the terrain is every...
Louis Pasteur’s original laboratory notebooks and personal papers were largely kept in private hands until Pasteur’s grandson, Pasteur Vallery-Radot, donated them to France’s national library in 1964,...
There is no strong evidence in the provided sources that Louis Pasteur publicly "admitted he was wrong" about germ theory; on the contrary, the historical record in these sources shows Pasteur as a le...
Louis Pasteur did not deny germ theory; he was one of its principal architects and spent decades disproving spontaneous generation and promoting microbes as agents of fermentation, spoilage and diseas...
Pasteurization meaningfully increases the shelf life of milk by reducing microbial load and inactivating pathogenic and spoilage organisms, but the magnitude of extension depends on , the specific pas...