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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in 1822 who made many important discoveries that helped establish the germ theory of disease. He developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax and pasteurization, a method of killing bacteria in food by heating it to certain temperatures. Throughout his career, he held many prestigious positions as a professor of chemistry and sciences. He made breakthroughs in curing diseases affecting silkworms and developed vaccines by using germs that caused diseases. Pasteur's research had a broad impact and established the logic and importance of scientific discovery.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in 1822 who made many important discoveries that helped establish the germ theory of disease. He developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax and pasteurization, a method of killing bacteria in food by heating it to certain temperatures. Throughout his career, he held many prestigious positions as a professor of chemistry and sciences. He made breakthroughs in curing diseases affecting silkworms and developed vaccines by using germs that caused diseases. Pasteur's research had a broad impact and established the logic and importance of scientific discovery.

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LOUIS PASTEUR

We need no reminder that the foundations of our knowledge of health


and disease were constructed by scientific giants who worked decades, even
centuries, ago. It is with tributes such as the one today to Louis Pasteur that
pay homage to these great minds—to acknowledge his achievement and our
indebtedness to him which we can never pay.

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27th 1822 in the town of Dole in
Eastern France. He was the only son of a poorly educated tanner, Jean
Pasteur. During his childhood in the town of Arbois, he loved to hear tales
about Emperor Napoleon’s wars from his father. He also liked to play with
his two younger sisters, Virginie and Josephine.

Louis was not an outstanding student during his years of elementary


education. Many teachers would describe him only as an “average student”.
He preferred drawing to other subjects. His father Jean, however, did not see
his son ending up as an Artist. Louis, himself was showing increasing
interest in chemistry and other scientific subject when an excellent teacher
taught him during his studies in Barbet Boarding School. The headmaster of
the collage recognized that Louis could do much better and convinced father
and son that Louis should try for the Ecole Normale Supriere in Paris. And it
was here that Pasteur entered and began his long journey of scientific
discovery.

Pasteur had a great career during his lifetime. At 26, he became


Professor Of Physics at Dijon Lycee. In 1849, he was invited to join
Stransburg University as a Professor of Chemistry. Then he become a
Professor Of Chemistry and the Dean of Sciences at the University of Lille.
In 1857, he was appointed the Director of Scientific Studies at Ecole
Normale Suprieure. He served there until his retirement in 1867. Throughout
his career, he had achieved many honors and prizes. These prizes are used in
developing his laboratory.

He was first renowned for his work on a cure for disease attacking
silkworms. He succeeded by destroying eggs of diseased silkworms so that
only healthy worms could hatch. Pasteur’s other great discovery is
pasteurization. Pasteurization is a process of heating liquids in airtight
containers to prevent them from going bad. He also put forward the germ
theory of disease. He used germs that caused diseases to make vaccines. He
was well-known for his vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax and rabies.

His eventful life ended on September 29, 1985 at the age of 73. The
French Government buried “The National Hero” at Saint Cloud, near Paris.
With certainty , one hallmark of Pasteur’s research was not only the
importance of his individual discoveries, but the overwhelming breadth of
his accomplishment. Pasteur, himself, provided us with an answer. He
believed that his research was “ enchained” to an inescapable, forward
moving logic. As we review today Pasteur’s scientific discoveries we shall
see the truth of this statement: how one discovery, one concept, led almost
“inescapably” to another.

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