Louis Pasteur 2

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dôle, a small town in France. He grew in a humble family and his father was a tanner. He graduated in 1840 from the College of Arts at Besancon and entered the prestigious Ecole Namale Supervieure, Paris, to work for his doctorate degree. He chose for his studies the then obscure science of crystallography, which was to have a great influence on his career. Pasteur entered the scientific …

…German insisted, the guard killed himself. The latter was Joseph Meister, whom Pasteur had saved from hydrophobia. Louis Pasteur made many valuable contributions to the fields of chemistry, medicine, and industry with findings and research still applicable today. In making discoveries concerning the spreading of diseases he was able to prevent the loss of many lives. Pasteur was a remarkable scientist who put his basic discoveries to use in everyday problems in health and industry.