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By Gerald L. Geison. 378 pp., illustrated. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1995. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-03442-7.

The publication of this fascinating biography marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur on September 28, 1895. Previous accounts of Pasteur's life and work have stressed the heroic stature of the man and the grandeur of his scientific contributions. Geison's biography is dramatically iconoclastic. The Pasteur who emerges from these pages is a creative, even brilliant, scientist but a distinctly unattractive human being.

Geison, a professor of history at Princeton University, has been studying Pasteur for over 20 years. This long-awaited work is not a casual account penned in time for the centenary celebrations; it is grounded . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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