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Benjamin Harrison was in the White House; in Paris, Professor Louis Pasteur was working out his theories on bacteria; and in Würzburg, Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen was on the threshold of discovering the X ray, with scarcely a glimmering of the wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week...
...will discuss Louis Pasteur and his research procedures...
People in Paris were coming down with something like parrot fevert-but they had not caught it from parrots. Dr. Pierre Lepine, the Pasteur Institute's virus expert, spent two years tracking down the culprit. Last week he had it: the plump Parisian pigeon...
...bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, two doctors of France's Pasteur Institute, who first tested it on calves...
...Science and Common Sense" is about as non-technical as could be asked. Conant avoids complicated scientific details by making his points with basic cases in the growth of the experimental sciences, such as Boyle's work with pneumatics, the discovery of the nature of combustion, and Pasteur's work with fermentation. These cases have the added advantage of illustrating Conant's definition of science: "An interconnected series of concepts and conceptual schemes that have developed as a result of experimentation and observation and are fruitful of further experimentation and observations...