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    Louis Pasteur was a French biologist and chemist in the 19th century who is considered the father of microbiology. He made groundbreaking discoveries in vaccinations, fermentation, and pasteurization. Specifically, he invented the process of pasteurization to stop bacterial contamination in milk and wine, disproved the theory of spontaneous generation through experiments showing microbes only develop from other microbes, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His work provided support for germ theory and changed medicine.

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    Louis Pasteur was a French biologist and chemist in the 19th century who is considered the father of microbiology. He made groundbreaking discoveries in vaccinations, fermentation, and pasteurization. Specifically, he invented the process of pasteurization to stop bacterial contamination in milk and wine, disproved the theory of spontaneous generation through experiments showing microbes only develop from other microbes, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His work provided support for germ theory and changed medicine.

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    Louis Pasteur was a French biologist and chemist in the 19th century who is considered the father of microbiology. He made groundbreaking discoveries in vaccinations, fermentation, and pasteurization. Specifically, he invented the process of pasteurization to stop bacterial contamination in milk and wine, disproved the theory of spontaneous generation through experiments showing microbes only develop from other microbes, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His work provided support for germ theory and changed medicine.

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    Louis Pasteur (/ˈluːi pæˈstɜːr/, French: [lwi pastœʁ]; December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895)

    was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles
    of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He is remembered for his remarkable
    breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases, and his discoveries have saved many
    lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for
    rabies and anthrax.

    His medical discoveries provided direct support for the germ theory of disease and its application
    in clinical medicine. He is best known to the general public for his invention of the technique of
    treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process now called pasteurization. He is
    regarded as one of the three main founders of bacteriology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and
    Robert Koch, and is popularly known as the "father of microbiology".[4][5][6]

    Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation. He performed
    experiments that showed that without contamination, microorganisms could not develop. Under
    the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, he demonstrated that in sterilized and sealed
    flasks nothing ever developed, and in sterilized but open flasks microorganisms could grow.[7]
    Although Pasteur was not the first to propose the germ theory, his experiments indicated its
    correctness and convinced most of Europe that it was true.

    Today, he is often regarded as one of the fathers of germ theory.[8] Pasteur made significant
    discoveries in chemistry, most notably on the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain
    crystals and racemization. Early in his career, his investigation of tartaric acid resulted in the first
    resolution of what is now called optical isomers. His work led the way to the current
    understanding of a fundamental principle in the structure of organic compounds.

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