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Louis Pasteur And Its Effects On Humans

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Louis Pasteur made very important contributions to science. He figured out that microorganism scaled microbes made alcohol and milk go sour. Before his discovery, there was no way to stop beverages from going bad. Drinking spoiled drinks can have very negative effects on humans. Louis created a process that destroys the microbes inside of liquids. To do this, you must heat up a liquid to a high temperature for a short amount of time. He named this revolutionary process pasteurization. In addition to is amazing achievement, Louis created vaccines for rabies and anthrax.

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822. He was born in Dole, France. Louis grew up in a town called Arbois with his father, Jean-Joseph Pasteur. Louis ' father had a …show more content…

This is where Louis met his wife, Marie Laurent. Louis married Marie on May 29 in the year 1849. Marie and Louis had five children. Sadly, only two of these children survived their childhood.

After managing to cope with the death of two of his children, Louis Pasteur was made a professor at the University of Lille. It was at this university, that Louis tried to find a solution to the problem manufacturers of alcohol faced at that time. Louis Pasteur, of course, did not invent Germ Theory. He did however, further develop the theory, and convinced the majority of Europe that this theory is true.

After showing how microorganism affected drinks such as alcohol and milk, Louis then created a process that was capable of destroying these organisms that put humans in danger. He figured out that this could be accomplished by boiling, and then cooling a liquid. Louis performed this for the first time on April 20 in 1862. We later named this process pasteurization, after its inventor.

Louis 's knowledge of how microorganisms forms helped him later in life. By using what he knew about microbes, Pasteur saved the silk industry. Pasteur proved to silk manufacturers that microbes were responsible for the silk shortage. The microbes were attacking silkworm eggs. By doing this, the silkworms caught a disease. Louis realized that if the microbes were killed, the disease would cease to exist. And of course, Louis 's hypothesis was correct, and by

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