Tag Archives: Pasteur speech

On Spontaneous Generation

Louis Pasteur's inaugural lecture at the Acadmey of Sciences

An address delivered by Louis Pasteur at the “Sorbonne Scientific Soirée” of April 7, 18641 English translation commissioned 1993 by Bruno Latour,© Alex Levine, all rights reserved. Gentlemen! A number of imposing problems now have our best minds in thrall. These include questions regarding the unity or plurality of the races of Man, whether his creation ought to be dated …

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The Second Century of Louis Pasteur: A Global Agenda for Biomedical Research

Louis Pasteur in his workshop with microscope

Typescript of a speech presented at the Colloque du Centenaire de l’Institut Pasteur, October 5-9, 1987 by JOSHUA LEDERBERG The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 INTRODUCTION: Louis Pasteur and the Pasteur Institute Nothing could have given me greater gratification than this invitation. For me, as for my entire generation of scientifically inclined youth, Louis Pasteur was a global culture …

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