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Louis Pasteur

 

 

Pays/Ville

France, (born): Dole -->Arbios --> Paris --> Besancon -->Paris --> Dijon --> Strassbourg --> Lille --> (died): Saint-Cloud

 

Details Personnels:

I went to many universities and also taught as a chemistry teacher. I discovered many things (which are listed later on this page). What I did, really helped the scientific understanding and save lives.

 

Date de Naissance:

December 27, 1822

Date de Mort:

September 28, 1895

Sexe:

Male

 

Situation de Famille:

I'm close to my sisters (especially when I was younger) 

I married Marie Laurent

Enfants:

Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Louise, and 3 others that didn't make it to adulthood (Camile, Cecile, 

En Cherchant:

save people from many diseases, and discover cures

Metier:

Scientist, biologist, professor

 

Interets/Loisirs:

• painting and drawing (when I was young)
• Avoiding the Black Death during much of 1593-1594
• Latin, rhetoric, composition, oration, versification, and the monuments of Roman literature 
• Traveling actor
• Schoolmaster
• principal writer for the successful Lord Chamberlain's Men

 

Accomplissements:

• studies with crystals and light
• became a professor in the University of Strasbourg
• experimented with fermantation
• focuced on microbiology
• disproved teh spontaneous theory
• solved the problem with silkworms
• discovered treatment for anthrax
• conducted important work with rabies
• wrote the book Etudes sur le Vin

 

Education:

• École Normale Supérieure
• Sorbonne
• (I never stopped learning, even as a professor)

 

Films Preferes:

discovery channel 

 

Musique Preferee:

Clasical music

 

Personnage que je voudrais rencontrer et pourquoi:

Robert Koch because I built my discoveries of vaccines against anthrax on his.

Alice Catherine Evans becuase she linked bacteria in milk with the disease brucellosis.

  

Sports:

I don't really like sports^^ 

 

Mon Influence sur la Culture Francaise

• I saved the failing French wine industry when I found out what caused the wine to spoil
• I saved the silk industry by discovering the silkworms and what they eat
• I found the fermntation of milk and other liquids which was named after me :) "pasteurization"
• I found out that bacteria and viruses cause disease so a made vaccines which saved many poeple and animals

 

 

 

Resources:

 

"Louis Pasteur." Scientists: Their Lives and Works, Vols. 1-7. Online Edition. U*X*L, 2006.

     Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.      <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>

 

 

"Louis Pasteur." World of Biology. Online. Thomson Gale, 2006.

      Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2008. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>