### q3 Karl Frederick Meyer is an underrated scientist > the 1920s, when Karl Frederick Meyer, a brilliant infectious disease specialist working for the US National Canners Association, formalised sterilisation and temperature control techniques to combat the threat of botulism. Meyer, who also worked on vaccines, disease epidemiology and milk processing, is a largely unheralded hero of global public health. Many consider him the twentieth century’s Pasteur, and his work doubtless saved millions of lives. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fn6rsqgd24gvgfvyg4bht8g4) - [[Botulism is the World's Deadliest Thing by Anthony Warner#q3 Karl Frederick Meyer is an underrated scientist|View in Vault]]