Note 12 — Chapter XI · THE PROFESSOR: AVIGNON (CONTINUED)
Bernard Miall translation
It was to the chance perusal of a certain passage that another prince of science owed the awakening of his genius. We are speaking of Pasteur, whom we shall presently see in his dealings with Fabre. “It was through reading a note by the Russian chemist, Mitscherlich, on the comparison of the specific characters of certain crystals that Pasteur became interested in those investigations of the subject of molecular dissymmetry which were the starting-point of so many wonderful discoveries.”12