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Modern historians of science are now re-evaluating Sophie Pasteur’s role. Works like Gerald L. Geison’s “The Private Science of Louis Pasteur” (1995) and recent feminist critiques of laboratory history have begun to give Sophie a voice. She is now recognized as one of the first “research managers” in biological science—a role that would later become formalized as lab director or administrative coordinator. sophie pasteur

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