THE ATHENAEUMMicrobe HuntersPaul de Kruif
Medicine
Microbe Hunters
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textPaul de Kruif, a bacteriologist who left the laboratory to write, tells the lives of the men who found the microbes, from Leeuwenhoek grinding his lenses in Delft to Pasteur, Koch and Ehrlich. He had just helped Sinclair Lewis with the medicine in Arrowsmith. Microbe Hunters came out in 1926 and set a good many of its readers on the way to becoming scientists.
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- Reading time
- About 8 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- The Medicine Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #77842. In the public domain in the United States.