Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

7/1/1975 - 7/31/1976

Funding Totals

$20,000.00 (approved)
$20,000.00 (awarded)


Pasteur Revalued: His Work and Career in the Light of Modern Historiography

FAIN: FA-11084-75

Gerald L. Geison
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)

To study the manuscripts of Louis Pasteur as part of a reexamination of his work and career. A paper arguing against the standard view that Pasteur's work on spontaneous generation was divorced from the socio-political implications of the issue, and four other essays will serve as the nucleus of a hook of essays about Pasteur.