EPISODE · Apr 19, 2017 · 13H 9M
Microbe Hunters Audiobook by Paul de Kruif
from Listen to Top 100 Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders · host Paul de Kruif
https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/33/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Microbe Hunters Subtitle: The Classic Book on the Major Discoveries of the Microscopic World Author: Paul de Kruif Narrator: Michael Quinlan Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 04-19-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders Publisher's Summary: This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world. 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/33/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Microbe Hunters Subtitle: The Classic Book on the Major Discoveries of the Microscopic World Author: Paul de Kruif Narrator: Michael Quinlan Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 04-19-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders Publisher's Summary: This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world. 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.
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