Linkin park with there album 'highbird thiory', the one with the smash 40 hit's 'crawling', 'runaway', 'one step closer', 'paper cut' and 'points of athority'.
Louis Pasteur is widey regarded as father of germ theory.In fact he proved and established the theory rather than coming up with this thiory. Girolamo Fracastoro, Agostino Bassi introduced the theory almost in the modern form.Even many centuries before them many propositions of disease origin by germs or small organisms were suggested by several investigators.The proof of germ theory was devised by Robert Koch by his Koch's postulates.Koch and Pasteur are widely regarded as pioneers or fathers of germ theory.
While Pasteur was not the first to propose germ theory (Girolamo Fracastoro, Agostino Bassi, Friedrich Henle and others had suggested it earlier), he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe it was true. Today he is often regarded as the father of germ theory and bacteriology, together with Robert Koch.