Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
louis pasteur was born in 1822, in france in the ancient town of dole, to a tanner jean joseph
pasteur and his wife Jeanne. His father had been a soldier in Napoleon`s army. they sent Louis
to a school in arbois when he was six, he enjoyed drawing portraits of his family. after he
garduatedhe went to the Royal College in Besancon where he earned his B.A and then a
Bachelor of Science degree, two years later at the age of twenty. In 1847 he received a
doctorate degree and became a professor at age twenty-six. He married Marie Laurent and
they had five children. His research led to the process of pasteurization of milk to kill viruses
and harmuful bacteria. he named the new science bacteriology and suggested a new theory,
the Germ Theory of Disease, He believed that diseases were caused by germs attacking the
body from the outside.The raising of silkworms was a large industry in France at that time, but
in 1849 the worms were hit with a disease and began to die. In 1865 at the request of the
government Pasteur performed experiments and at the end of this arduous task he suffered a
stroke and paralysis. After two years he began to recover the use of his body. His nexttask was
to try and find the cause of disease in the body. He developed a vaccine for a disease in
chickens, fowl cholera, and a disease in animals, splenic fever; Pasteur devoted the rest of his
life developing vaccines for the people against such diseases as cholera , diphtheria ,
tubercolosis and smallpox. As early as 1774 a vaccine for smallpox had been discovered. He id
especially remembered for the case in which he vaccinated a nine -year-old boy, joseph
Meister, who had been bitten by a dog that had rabies. the boy recovered after receiving the
vaccine from Pasteur . The Pasteur institute was founded in 1888 in Paris. When he died he
was buried there in a fine tomb.
louis pasteur was born in 1822, in france in the ancient town of dole, to a tanner jean joseph
pasteur and his wife Jeanne. His father had been a soldier in Napoleon`s army. they sent Louis
to a school in arbois when he was six, he enjoyed drawing portraits of his family. after he
garduatedhe went to the Royal College in Besancon where he earned his B.A and then a
Bachelor of Science degree. In 1847 he received a doctorate degree and became a professor.
He married Marie Laurent and they had five children. His research led to the process of
pasteurization of milk to kill viruses and harmuful bacteria. he named the new science
bacteriology and suggested a new theory, the Germ Theory of Disease. He developed a vaccine
for a disease in chickens, fowl cholera, and a disease in animals, splenic fever. Pasteur devoted
the rest of his life developing four vaccines for the people against such diseases as cholera ,
diphtheria , tubercolosis and smallpox.