Bail, Karl Adolph Emmo Theodor ( 1833 - ----). German mycologist. Discovered the submerged yeast form of Mucor mucedo.
Balard, Antoine Jérôme ( 1802-1876). French chemist. Born in Montpellier. Professor in the Normal School, the College of France and the Sorbonne. Inspector general of higher education. Member of the Academy of Sciences. Discovered bromine ( 1826) and succeeded in extracting sodium sulphate from sea water.
"Par sa chaleur d'âme, il entraînait tout le monde dans un mouve- ment généreux. C'était un éveilleur d'activités. . . . Ce qui me charmait en lui, c'est qu'il avait le culte de la science pure. Dès qu'un homme de laboratoire mêle à ses travaux d'autres préoccupa- tions, il est arrêté dans sa marche." ( Pasteur.)
Barbet (---- - ----). Director of the "Maison Barbet," a Parisian preparatory school. Teacher of Pasteur and of Duclaux.
Bastian, Henry Charlton ( 1837-1915). English physician, physiologist and pathologist. Born in Cornwall. Professor in University of London. Member of the Royal Society. Bastian wrote "The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms" ( 1871), "The Beginnings of Life" ( 1872), and "Studies in Heterogenesis" ( 1901). Student of nematodes and of the brain and nervous system. Adversary of Pasteur. For portrait see Pop. Sci. Monthly, Nov., 1875.
Beal, William James ( 1833 - ----). American botanist. Born in Michigan. Student of Louis Agassiz and of Asa Gray. For many years professor in Michigan Agricultural College.
Béchamp, Pierre Jacques Antoine ( 1816-1908). French physician. Professor in Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier and afterward in the Catholic Faculty in Lille. Antagonist of Pasteur. Copious writer. His chief work is "Les Microzymas dans leurs rapports avec l'hétérogénie, l'histogénie, la physiologie et la pathologie, examen de la panspermie atmosphérique continue ou discontinue, morbifère ou non morbifère," 8 vo., pp. 992, Paris ( 1883); see also "Microzymas et Microbes" ( 1888).
"As to the nature of the disease [flacherie] and its cause, M. Bé- champ ascribes it to mobile molecules which he calls microzymas and which he sees swarming everywhere 'on the surface of the worms, in their fluids, in the eggs, etc.' I leave to M. Béchamp the complete priority of these facts." ( Pasteur.)
Becher, Johann Joachim ( 1635-1682). German chemist and political economist. A forerunner of Stahl. Helped to introduce potato- culture into Germany--a vast undertaking, since there was a strong popular prejudice to be overcome.
Beethoven, Ludwig van ( 1770-1827). Greatest of composers. Son of a drunkard who was a mediocre musician and of a tuberculous woman who was the daughter of a cook. Generally reckoned as a German,
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Publication Information: Book Title: Pasteur: The History of a Mind. Contributors: Ėmile Duclaux - author, Erwin F. Smith - transltr, Florence Hedges - transltr. Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1920. Page Number: 324.
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