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Scientific Biographies. Louis Pasteur. During the mid- to late 19th century, Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened, or attenuated, microbes. He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies. Print Republish Google Classroom.
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, a small town in eastern France. As a youngster he showed talent as an artist, but no special ability in school. This changed however, in his high school years, as he became more and more interested in scientific subjects.
French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur experimenting on a chloroformed rabbit, coloured wood engraving, 1885. (more) In the early 1870s Pasteur had already acquired considerable renown and respect in France, and in 1873 he was elected as an associate member of the Académie de Médecine.
French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur made many important contributions to science, including the discovery that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease. (more)
1822 - 1895. The daring and devious father of immunology. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY. Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of...
Nov 18, 2022 · He invented microbiology and established the foundations for immunology. Louis Pasteur (seated) poses with, among others, children treated with his rabies vaccine. By early 1886, more than 300...
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.
