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Will The Virus Have The Last Word?

29 May 2020

鈥淕entlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.鈥 Those words spoken by Louis Pasteur a century and a half ago are unnervingly meaningful today as we confront the SARS-CoV-2 virus that...

How Louis Pasteur Beat a Beet Problem and Changed Medicine Forever

6 Mar 2019

Pasteur, who聽was then a young professor of chemistry at the University of Lille,聽was saddled with a problem faced by many researchers today.聽He needed funding and sought help from private...

The Many Uses of Cream of Tartar

15 Feb 2017

In chemical terms, it is potassium hydrogen tartrate which is basically partially neutralized tartaric acid.聽Pasteur became interested in the chemistry of winemaking and launched into a study of...

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