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...
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...
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...