Book
Microbe Hunters
- Published
- 1926
- Genre
- Science/Math
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Pages
- 384
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582171.Microbe_Hunters?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1270L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 13–18
- Ambleside year
- Years 8–11 · ages 13–19
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Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif reveals the now seemingly simple but really fundamental discoveries of science—for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time ever, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it. (less)
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780156594134
- ISBN-10
- 0156594137
Tags
BacteriaHistoryMedicineMicroscopeScienceVaccines