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...International.Microbio-logical Congress. Elderly scientists who had not seen each other since before the War, pushed beaming through the throng for handclasps and greetings. Great names from text books and professional journals nodded acknowledgment to introductions: "Professor [Jules] Bordet, director of the Brussels Pasteur Institute . . . Professor [Pierre Paul Emile] Roux, director of this Paris Pasteur Institute. . . . That is Dr. [Richard] Pfeiffer of Berlin . . . Dr. [Georgef] Fontes, professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. . . . How do you do, Dr. [William Hallock] Park. I hear you in New York approve Dr. Calmette's vaccine. Those deaths in Germany this summer...
...went into the French navy, as a doctor. Then he was posted with French Colonial troops in Indo-China, where he founded the Pasteur Institute of Saïgon. Later he was to found an anti-tuberculosis dispensary at Lille, in honor of Pierre Paul Émile Roux, present director of the Pasteur Institute of Paris (in which Dr. Calmette is the senior professor of microbiology and assistant director) and to become director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille...
...white-chinned Premier Raymond Poincaré led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...
Skillful journalese hooks headlines to the following researchers, popularizes them: Antony Leeuwenhoek, "First of the Microbe Hunters"; Lazzaro Spallanzani," "Microbes Must Have Parents"; Louis Pasteur, "Microbes Are a Menace!"; Robert Koch, "The Death Fighter"; Louis Pasteur, "And the Mad Dog"; Emile Roux and Emil August Behring "Massacre the Guinea Pigs"; Elie Metchnikoff, "The Nice Phagocytes"; Theobald Smith, "Ticks and Texas Fever"; David Bruce, "Trail of the Tsetse"; Ronald Ross and Battista Grassi, "Malaria"; Walter Reed, "In the Interest of Science?and for Humanity!"; and Paul Ehrlich, "The Magic Bullet...
Concluding a professional estimate of The Medical Work of Pasteur, wrote M. Emile Roux, Director of the Pasteur Institute (Paris) : "The work of Pasteur is admirable. It shows his genius, but one must have lived intimately with the master to know of the goodness of his heart...