Health & Medicine

Louis Pasteur’s devotion to truth transformed what we know about health and disease

A photo of Louis Pasteur's head surrounded by illustrations of scientific equipment, leaves, and swirls

Louis Pasteur demonstrated, more dramatically than any other scientist, the benefit of science for humankind.

Sam Falconer

By Tom Siegfried

- More than 2 years ago

Great scientists become immortalized in various ways.

Some through names for obscure units of measurement (à la Hertz, Faraday and Curie). Others in elements on the periodic table (Mendeleev, Seaborg, Bohr, among many others).