Louis Pasteur Research Paper

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Louis Pasteur

One of the greatest French chemist and microbiologist was Louis Pasteur (Cunninghan 98). He was able to help shape American through his ingenuity. He came up with certain vaccinations and was able to figure more out about disease such a chicken cholera, rabies, and anthrax. The one he is most known for is the process he came up with called pasteurization.

Louis Pasteur got his bachelor degree in art in 1840. Two years later he got his degree in science and then in 1847 he got his doctorate degree (Rogers 184). Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France in 1822. At the age of 32 he became the dean of the faculty of science at the University of Lille (Trueman 1).

Louis Pasteur was at the university when a man named Bigos came to …show more content…

He made it his goal to figure out a way to cure humans of a disease once they contracted it. He started with chicken cholera which would kill chickens (Berche). He had found the vaccine for the chickens by complete chance. He just so happened to stumble upon an older version of the disease. He realized that the older version was weaker than the more new version. So he used that one to create a vaccine to see if it would work. He injected two groups with the chicken cholera one was with the more recent outbreak of chicken cholera and the other was the older one. The chickens that were injected with the new chicken cholera were several affected and the ones with the older one all got better (Trueman 1). He later found out that chickens that were already exposed to that disease were immune afterwards (Rogers). Pasteur used the chicken cholera as his trial and error for figuring out how to make vaccines that would work. Louis and Robert Koch found extremely small one celled creatures living in animals and humans and linked them to specific diseases

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