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Marie Pasteur, née Laurent (15 January 1826 in Clermont-Ferrand, France – 28 September 1910 in Paris), was the scientific assistant and co-worker of her spouse, the famous French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur.
Marie Laurent, born in 1826, was the daughter of the Rector of the University of Strasbourg, where Pasteur was appointed Professor of Physics and Chemistry. They married in 1849. Marie was...
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Apr 18, 2022 · Louis Pasteur is the most internationally known French scientist. He discovered molecular chirality, and he contributed to the understanding of the process of fermentation, helping brewers and winemakers to improve their beverages. He proposed a process, known as pasteurization, for the sterilization of wines.
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Marie-Louise Pasteur married René Vallery-Radot (1853–1933) in 1879; they had three children. Camille (1880–1927), Madeleine (1882–1882) and Louis (1886–1970).
- Tartrates and Optical Activity
- Unique Experiments with Fungus
- Ferments, Flasks and Filters
- Silkworms, Cholera and Anthrax
- The Ultimate Challenge – Human Rabies
For his doctorate, Louis chose to study crystallography, an area of great interest at the time, with a number of unusual optical phenomena being observed in mineral crystals. But Louis was interested in a material a bit closer to his heart – the organic compound tartaric acid – a by-product of wine fermentation. This was found in thick, crusty depo...
With this remarkable discovery, Louis’ reputation began its crescendo and he was able to secure a position as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg in 1848. There he met Marie Laurent, a daughter of one of the university officials and two weeks later, being quite smitten by her, wrote a letter to Marie’s father asking for her hand ...
Louis’ research in Strasbourg had attracted more fame and monetary prizes, the latter spent mainly on laboratory equipment. Despite this, his laboratory facilities were still extremely limited so in 1854, at the age of 32, he accepted an appointment to the chair of chemistry and the dean of sciences at the newly reorganised University of Lille in t...
Following Louis’ swan-necked flask work, fate was to give him a chance to study disease more closely – not in humans, but in silkworms. Learning that a mysterious disease had afflicted France’s silkworms, causing major economic hardship, he decided to investigate, completing the work from 1865 to 1870 in a makeshift laboratory in a house in Alés, s...
Louis applied the techniques he had developed with chicken cholera and anthrax to rabies. The decision to study rabies is seen by historians as odd because the disease caused a comparatively low number of deaths in France at the time. However, when he was a boy, Louis had witnessed a rabid wolf terrorising the inhabitants of Arbois, biting people a...
Marie Louise Pasteur. Born 19 Jul 1858 in Paris, Seine, France. Ancestors. Daughter of Louis Pasteur and Marie Anne (Laurent) Pasteur. Sister of Marie Jeanne Amélie Louise Pasteur, Lucien Jean-Baptiste Pasteur, Marie Marguerite Cécile Pasteur and Marie Camille Pasteur.
Jun 13, 2023 · Louis Pasteur, born December 27, 1822 in Dole, France, showed in his childhood and youth great abilities as an artistic painter; however by an age of 19, his interest changed toward science, and he moved to Paris to study chemistry and physics at École Normale Supérieure.
