Louis pasteur children
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Louis Pasteur is celebrated by the scientific community and by the general public as the founding father of microbiology. But what is microbiology if not the science of living organisms that have in common their “small size”? …. They are alive but we can only see them under the microscope or … not at all. In a very singular way, Pasteur became interested in these microscopic organisms—microbes or “germs”—not because of their size but, from the outset, from the point of view of the chemist and even the physicist. His constant preoccupation has always been to apply the method and strategies of the basic sciences to living processes, whatever the scale of the organism concerned: today we would say “from the molecule to the brain”. His fundamental aim was, throughout his work, went beyond the biology of microbes, to the chemistry of life. In this brief article, I would like to show that this disposition and experience of a chemist is the sign of the originality of Pasteur’s entire work (see also Duclau
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French chemist and microbiologist who became world famous for originating the process of pasteurization and for establishing the validity of the germ theory of disease, although he also made many other scientific contributions. Regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, he received many honours during his lifetime, including the Legion of Honour, France's highest award.
Pasteur was born on 27 December 1822 in Dôle in eastern France, the son of a tanner. While he was still young, his family moved to Arbois, where he attended primary and secondary schools. He was not a particularly good student, but he showed an aptitude for painting and mathematics and his initial ambition was to become a professor of fine arts. He continued his education at the Royal College in Besançon, from which he gained his BA in 1840 and his BSc in 1842. In 1843 Pasteur entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he began to study chemistry and from which he gained his doctorate in 1847. In the following year he was appointed professor of physics at the Dijon
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Pasteur, Louis
(b. Dole, Jura, France, 27 December 1822; d. Chateau Villeneuve-l’Ètang, near Paris, France, 28 September 1895)
crystallography, chemistry, microbiology, immunology.
| Outline of Pasteur’s Career | |
|---|---|
| 1829–1831 | Student at École Primaire, Arbois |
| 1831–1839 | Student at Collège d’Arbois |
| 1839–1842 | Student at Collège Royal de Besançon |
| 1842–1843 | Student at Barbet’s School and Lycée St.-Louis, Paris |
| 1843–1846 | Student at École Normale Supérieure (Paris) |
| 1846–1848 | Préparateur in chemistry, École Normale |
| 1849–1854 | Professor of chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Strasbourg suppléant, 1849–1852 titulaire, 1852–1854 |
| 1854–1857 | Professor of chemistry and dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Lille |
| 1857–1867 | Administrator and director of scientific studies, École Normale |
| 1867–1874 | Professor of chemistry, Sorbonne |
| 1867–1888 | Director of the laboratory of physiological chemistry, École Normale |
| 1888–1895 | Director of the Institut Pasteur (Paris) |
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| Sept.-Dec. 1848 Professor of physics, Lycée de Dijon | |
| 1863–1868 | Pro
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