father of Joseph Lister, in 1826 to make a microscope with 1,000 times magnification. The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope, discovered ...

Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness could be prevented by vaccines. At the time, it was widely believed that ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany ... earned Koch his status as ‘the father of modern bacteriology’. Meanwhile, Pasteur was still beavering away.