Stamen Grigorov was a Bulgarian physician and researcher from Studen Izvor. He studied natural sciences in Montpellier before continuing his medical education in Geneva. Working in Professor Massol’s laboratory, he investigated yogurt and published an account distinguishing three microorganisms in 1905. Experiments linked one of them to milk thickening. Yogurt already existed as a household food; his contribution concerned its organisms and how they acted. The consulted study found no documents confirming the story of his lecture at the Pasteur Institute. A Yogurt Museum opened in his home village in 2007.
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Researched yogurt in Geneva in 1905.
Distinguished three microorganisms in his research.
Published the account in 1905.
Distinguished three microorganisms in his research.
History of Bulgaria
