Louis Pasteur : leading the way to a healthier world /
Ann Angel, Beverley Birch.
- North American ed.
- Milwaukee : Gareth Stevens Children's Books, 1992.
- 68 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 22 cm.
- People who made a difference .
"Abridged from Louis Pasteur: the scientist who found the cause of infectious disease and invented pasteurization ... written by Beverley Birch"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 61) and index.
A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology.