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Louis Pasteur ForMemRS (/ ˈ l uː i p æ ˈ s t ɜːr /, French: [lwi pastœʁ] ⓘ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
Each book gives a simplified and semi-fictionalized biography of a historical figure as an allegory, illustrating the value of a characteristic. Each volume is a white pictorial glossy hardback book around 60 pages long with a brightly colored cartoon of the figure, along with some anthropomorphic item or animal that narrates the subject's life ...
Elaine Marie Alphin (née Bonilla; October 30, 1955 – August 19, 2014) was an American author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. [1]Although she specialized in fiction, she has published many non-fiction titles, including biographies of Davy Crockett, Louis Pasteur, Dwight Eisenhower, and John Paul Jones, which she co-wrote with her husband Arthur Alphin (as part of ...
Louis Pasteur was a pioneer in chemistry, microbiology, immunology and vaccinology. pictore/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty ImagesSome of the greatest scientific discoveries haven’t resulted in ...
Joseph Meister in 1885. Joseph Meister (21 February 1876 – 24 June 1940) was the first person to be inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur, and likely the first person to be successfully treated for the infection, which has a >99% fatality rate once symptoms set in.
The Musée Pasteur (French pronunciation: [myze pastœʁ], lit. ' Pasteur Museum ' ) is a museum dedicated to French scientist Louis Pasteur . It is located within the Institut Pasteur at 25 Rue du Docteur Roux, Paris , France , in the 15th arrondissement , and is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.
However, Pasteur's work confirmed the view Lister had always expressed that contamination came from the air. Lister did not realise the vast and diverse amount of microbial life. [263] As Lister's work at that time derived directly from Pasteur's, Lister probably thought that wound infection was due to a single organism.
The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 American black-and-white biographical film from Warner Bros., produced by Henry Blanke, directed by William Dieterle, that stars Paul Muni as the renowned scientist who developed major advances in microbiology, which revolutionized agriculture and medicine.