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Nature 452, 530 (3 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452530b; Published online 2 April 2008
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Comparing the legacies of Gauss, Pasteur and Darwin
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Kevin Padian's enthusiastic Essay on Charles Darwin ('Darwin's enduring legacy' Nature 451, 632–634; 2008) asks whether any single individual made so many lasting contributions to a broad area of science as Darwin did to biology. Let us remember that the nineteenth century also included Carl Friedrich Gauss, often called the greatest mathematician since antiquity, and Louis Pasteur, sometimes considered humanity's greatest benefactor because of his (and Robert Koch's) germ theory of disease.
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