Louis Pasteur: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Louis Pasteur, credited to Albert Keim; Louis Lumet, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Louis Pasteur by Albert Keim; Louis Lumet. (Translated by Frederic Taber Cooper.) Read in English by Pamela Nagami Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to the study of chemistry, microbiology, and applied immunology, a mind open, innovative, and insightful. Born of peasant stock in the French Jura, he worked with dogged determination all his life and often in the face of strenuous opposition. Through an unbroken succession of rigorously designed and meticulously performed experiments, Pasteur developed veterinary vaccines and halted grievous losses in the French wine, silk, and dairy industries. He provided the crucial experimental support for the germ theory of disease which enabled Joseph Lister and others to prevent infections in surgical patients and in new mothers. During the development of the vaccine against rabies, Pasteur and his colleagues often risked their own lives, but they delivered humankind from the terror of this agonizing and almost always fatal illness. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Louis Pasteur
• Author credits: Albert Keim; Louis Lumet
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 4:22:41

Catalogue topics

• franco-prussian war
• vaccination
• crystallography
• louis pasteur
• rabies
• germ theory
• the pasteur institute

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch. 1: A Studious Boyhood — 18:48
2. 02 - Ch. 2: A Laborious and Enthusiastic Youth, Pt. 1 — 17:44
3. 03 - Ch. 2: A Laborious and Enthusiastic Youth, Pt. 2 — 18:49
4. 04 - Ch. 3: On the Road to Fame, Pt. 1 — 15:49
5. 05 - Ch. 3: On the Road to Fame, Pt. 2 — 16:19
6. 06 - Ch. 4: For the National Wealth, Pt. 1 — 18:20
7. 07 - Ch. 4: For the National Wealth, Pt. 2 — 19:11
8. 08 - Ch. 5: The Spirit of Patriotism — 16:15
9. 09 - Ch. 6: The Curative Poison — 26:30
10. 10 - Ch. 7: The Sovereignty of Genius, Pt. 1 — 14:40
11. 11 - Ch. 7: The Sovereignty of Genius, Pt. 2 — 16:25
12. 12 - Ch. 8: Hydrophobia — 17:31
13. 13 - Ch. 9: The Pasteur Institute — 13:36
14. 14 - Ch. 10: The Supreme Homage — 20:22
15. 15 - Ch. 11: The Last Days of a Great Man — 12:22

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