Heribert Bueb
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It’s commonly thought that Louis Pasteur first showed that microbes cause disease. In fact it was M. Joseph Berkeley in 1846, who first showed that a fungus-like microbe probably caused late blight disease of potato-almost 20 years before Louis Pasteur formally proposed the germ theory of disease. 🧪
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Share your thoughts in the comments below -- We would love to hear!
The National Food Museum’s take might surprise you…
Learn more by reading the “11 Most Impactful Events in Food History."
#nationalfoodmuseum #foodhistory
The 11 Most Impactful Events in Food History - National Food Museum
The 11 Most Impactful Events in Food History The National Food Museum is interested in all aspects of food—the history of the human diet, the contribution of the food system to the climate crisis, rec...
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January 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s commonly thought that Louis Pasteur first showed that microbes cause disease. In fact it was M. Joseph Berkeley in 1846, who first showed that a fungus-like microbe probably caused late blight disease of potato-almost 20 years before Louis Pasteur formally proposed the germ theory of disease. 🧪