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Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

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Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist, chemist, biochemist, and university teacher. Born in Dole in 1822, he was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Saint-Louis, University of Paris, and Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers. He worked as a university teacher at the University of Strasbourg, University of Lille, École Normale Supérieure, and École Centrale de Lille. He was a member of the Royal Society, Société Philomathique de Paris, Académie Française, and American Philosophical Society.

Pasteur received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Leeuwenhoek Medal, Copley Medal, and Rumford Medal. His notable works include *Rapport à son excellence M. le Ministre de l'agriculture du commerce et des travaux publics*, *Free Lance Of Science*, *Oeuvres de Pasteur*, *Hydrophobia, an Account of M. Pasteur's System*, and *Études Sur la Maladie des Vers À Soie*. He was married to Marie Pasteur and identified as Catholic. He died of cardiac arrest in Saint-Cloud, Marnes-la-Coquette, in 1895.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 21

Top works

Rapport à son excellence M. le Ministre de l'agriculture du commerce et des travaux publics
Free Lance Of Science
Oeuvres de Pasteur
Hydrophobia, an Account of M. Pasteur's System
Études Sur la Maladie des Vers À Soie

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,359
Total plays: 10,060

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,677x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
<i>WinGX</i>suite for small-molecule single-crystal crystallography
· 1999 · cited 15,221x
The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary
· 2016 · cited 13,388x

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Quotes

“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”
“Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.”
“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.”
“L' univers est dissymetrique...”
“I beseech you to take interest in these sacred domains so expressively called laboratories. Ask that there be more and that they be adorned for these are the temples of the future, wealth and well-being. It is here that humanity will grow, strengthen and improve. Here, humanity will learn to read progress and individual harmony in the works of nature, while humanity's own works are all too often those of barbarism, fanaticism and destruction.”
“Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.”

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Louis Pasteur, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Die in der Atmosphäre vorhandenen organisirten Körperchen : Prüfung der Lehre von der Urzeugung ; Abhandlung

Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable : avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation

Die Alkohol-Gaehrung

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Encyclopedic overview

Louis Pasteur (/ˈluːi pæˈstɜːr/, French: [lwi pastœʁ] ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him. His research in chemistry led to remarkable breakthroughs in the understanding of the causes and preventions of diseases, which laid down the foundations of hygiene, public health and much of modern medicine. Pasteur's works are credited with saving millions of lives through the developments of vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern bacteriology and has been honored as the "father of bacteriology" and the "father of microbiology" (together with Robert Koch; the latter epithet also attributed to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek).

Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation. Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, his experiment demonstrated that in sterilized and sealed flasks, nothing ever developed; conversely, in sterilized but open flasks, microorganisms could grow. For this experiment, the academy awarded him the Alhumbert Prize carrying 2,500 francs in 1862.

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