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Louis Pasteur Accomplishments

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Louis Pasteur was incredible! I had heard about him before, and knew that he had made advancements in the medical world, but before doing my research, I don't think I could have pin-pointed exactly what he did. He was responsible for many significant discoveries, but the one I have chosen to focus on is the study of bacteriology.

It all began when Louis Pasteur (who had made his mark in crystallography, and been hired as the dean and professor at University of Lille) was approached in the 1850s by a man who was having trouble with his sugar-beet juice going bad before he was able to distill alcohol from it. Because of his previous work, this question intrigued him! Under his microscope, he was able to identify round globules

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