Today in History: 20 April 1862: Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard completed the experiment that conclusively disproved the theory of spontaneous generation. This theory held that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that such processes were commonplace and regular. It was coherently synthesized by Greek philosopher and naturalist Ari…
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