Louis Pasteur Accomplishments

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Behind everything we know and study about microbiology there is a brilliant scientist, a scientist that discover what we can know that exist till this day. Louis Pasteur, was a “french chemist, scientist, and inventor born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, France” (Louis). Louis Pasteur’s, like many scientist, made discoveries and inventions are now essential aspects used in microbiology. Many thing we know about, is thanks to a clever scientist that in the past discovered something new, something for people to use today. Louis “completed a bachelor degree in arts on 1840, then a bachelor degree in science in 1842, afterwards completing a doctorate degree in 1847” (Louis). Like every individual, Louis Pasteur cherished not only science, but he had other things he liked doing, which was art. Louis liking both science and art, I ponder might be an aspect as to why we all know microbiology is so …show more content…

Any individual is recognized, by a certain name, which was given to him or her by many has to earn the name by doing something that helps, benefits, or teaches them something. For example, Louis is known by many because of what he at some point in his live discovered or invented, which is repeatedly used today. In addition, in 1861 Pasteur coordinated an experiment, and experiment in which he “demonstrated that air contains microorganisms, he’s experiment was done by filtering air through a cotton plug, tapping microorganisms; then examining the trapped microbes in a microscope” which lead to him discovering that air is not as clean as many thought, but that it contain microbes (Andersone). If a discovery like that had not taken place, many people today would get ill without knowing that it could have been an airborne pathogen, or microbe he or she came in contact with while inhaling

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