Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But because he died in 1895, six years before the first Nobel Prize was awarded, that prize isn’t on his resume. Had he lived in ...

Some of the greatest scientific discoveries haven’t resulted in Nobel Prizes. Louis Pasteur, who lived from 1822 to 1895, is arguably the world’s best-known microbiologist. He is widely credited for ...

There are few scientific advances that have had such a dramatic impact on the course of human history as the theory that disease is caused by microorganisms. The germ theory, as it is now universally ...