- Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization
Born: | 27 December 1822 Comment | When did Louis Pasteur die? / Died | 28 September 1895 | How many years did Louis Pasteur live? / Lived | 72 years | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
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Louis Pasteur facts
- He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases, and his discoveries have saved countless lives ever since
- He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax
- His medical discoveries provided direct support for the germ theory of disease and its application in clinical medicine
- He is best known to the general public for his invention of the technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process now called pasteurization
- He is regarded as one of the three main founders of bacteriology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch, and is popularly known as the "father of microbiology"
- Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation
- He performed experiments that showed that without contamination, microorganisms could not develop
- Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, he demonstrated that in sterilized and sealed flasks nothing ever developed, and in sterilized but open flasks microorganisms could grow
- This experiment won him the Alhumbert Prize of the academy
- Although Pasteur was not the first to propose the germ theory, he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe that it was true
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