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Louis Pasteur
by Patrice Debre
ISBN: 0801865298
ISBN-13: 9780801865299
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A biography of Louis Pasteur, from his beginnings as a scientist interested in crystallography to his pioneering work in infectious diseases.
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"...[this book] is a superior specimen of traditional narrative biography....Debre tells Pasteur's story with pace and flair. He paints the provincial and Paris backgrounds with a...vivid palette...and helpfully relates his hero to subsequent developments in microbiology." -- Roy Porter
-- Times Literary Supplement
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Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published date: 2000
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.9 pounds
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Louis Pasteur
Patrice Debre
Johns Hopkins. Used - Like New. Fine. Paperback. ( more information) Offered by Powell's Bookstores Chicago (United States)
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Debré, Patrice
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Louis Pasteur
Debre, Patrice
Johns Hopkins Press,, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Clean, tight book. Translated by Elborg Forster. Draws heavily on Pasteur's own notebooks and writing. 552pp. Index. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Section of photographs. ( more information) Offered by Diatrope Books (United States)
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Debre, Patrice, and Debra(c), Patrice, Dr., and Forster, Elborg, Professor (Translated by)
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Patrice Debré; Translator-Elborg Forster
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