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Chemist and microbiologist · 1822–1895 · Medicine
Showed that microbes cause fermentation and disease, saved the French wine and silk industries, and gambled on a rabies vaccine with a boy’s life.
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“In the fields of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.”
Pasteur, lecture at Lille, 1854
Pasteur began in crystallography, discovering molecular chirality at twenty-six. Asked to help brewers and vintners whose product kept spoiling, he showed that microorganisms were responsible and that gentle heating would kill them — the process that carries his name. His swan-neck flask experiments dismantled the theory of spontaneous generation. He rescued the French silk industry by identifying two silkworm diseases, developed vaccines for chicken cholera and anthrax, and in July 1885 injected an untested rabies preparation into nine-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been badly bitten. The boy lived. Public subscriptions built the Pasteur Institute in 1888, and his germ theory changed surgery through Lister.
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You can put that to the Louis Pasteur persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Louis Pasteur’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1822–1895, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Louis Pasteur persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Louis Pasteur’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1822–1895, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Louis Pasteur persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Louis Pasteur’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1822–1895, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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