What is louis pasteur known for

Louis Pasteur, founder of microbiology, had an early interest in spontaneous generation. His years of patient and exhaustive research on the germ theory of disease earned for this tireless French chemist a place as one of the true IMMORTALS OF SCIENCE.

Perhaps Pasteur is best known for showing how harmful bacteria could be killed by holding them at a definite temperature for a certain length of time. Later this process acquired its discoverer's name — pasteurization.

While Robert Koch, the German bacteriologist, was the first to perfect the pure techniques of studying and cultivating bacteria, Pasteur is regarded as the greatest applied bacteriologist. Through his work he did much to generalize Edward Jenner's process of vaccine innoculation to preventive medicine by discovering many anti-toxins for diseases such as hydrophobia and silkworm diseases. He was also instrumental in opening a breach in the fight against cholera, yellow fever, and diphtheria.

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist whose work changed medicine. He proved that germs cause disease; he developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies; and he created the process of pasteurization.

Family and education

Louis Pasteur was born on Dec. 27, 1822, in Dole, France. Pasteur’s father was a tanner and the family was not wealthy, but they were determined to provide a good education for their son. At 9 years old, he was admitted to the local secondary school where he was known as an average student with a talent for art.

When he was 16, Pasteur traveled to Paris to continue his education, but returned home after becoming very homesick. He entered the Royal College at Besançon where he earned a Bachelor of Arts. He stayed to study mathematics, but failed his final examinations. He moved to Dijon to finish his Bachelor of Science. In 1842, he applied to the Ecole Normale in Paris, but he failed the entrance exam. He reapplied and was admitted in the fall of 1844 where he became graduate assistant to Antoine B

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