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- He later attended the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure to study physics and chemistry, specializing in crystals, and obtaining the French equivalents of an MSc (1845) and a Ph.D. (1847). He served briefly as a professor of physics at the Lycee in Dijon, and later became a professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg.
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Apr 23, 2024 · After attending primary school in Arbois, where his family had moved, and secondary school in nearby Besançon, he earned his bachelor of arts degree (1840) and bachelor of science degree (1842) at the Royal College of Besançon. Louis Pasteur, French chemist who was one of the most important founders of medical microbiology.
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Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist, 1878, by A Gerschel. Pasteur was appointed professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg in 1848, and became the chair of chemistry in 1852.
He later attended the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure to study physics and chemistry, specializing in crystals, and obtaining the French equivalents of an MSc (1845) and a Ph.D. (1847). He served briefly as a professor of physics at the Lycee in Dijon, and later became a professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg.
Pasteur revolutionized chemistry and biology with his discovery of mirror-image organic molecules, then founded microbiology with his work on fermentation, his discovery of anaerobic bacteria, and his establishment of the germ theory of disease. The process he invented to stop foodstuffs going bad, pasteurization, is still in use worldwide today.
His appointment in October as preparateur in chemistry to Antoine Jerome Balard at the École Normale enabled pasteur to continue toward his doctorate, which he received in August 1847 with dissertations in both physics and chemistry.
September–November 2020. Louis Pasteur: his chemistry and microbiology. After making landmark discoveries in optical isomerism, tireless chemist Louis Pasteur progressed to work that would mark him as the father of microbiology and virology.
Jan 31, 2014 · Louis Pasteur was a French chemist who proved that germs cause disease, developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies and created the process of pasteurization.
