Dr. Louis Pasteur did not believe in “spontaneous generation” which is to say he did not believe that life could just appear, but he needed evidence to support his claim. Spontaneous Generation was a hot controversy among scientists in the 1860s. Dr. Pasteur believed diseases traveled through these microbes. He was looking for a way to stop people from getting sick.
Pasteur asked many questions. Among were (paraphrased): ‘can animalcules [now known as microbes or pathogens] appear out of nowhere when there is a food source?’ and ‘how does one stop these tiny life forms from living in your food and making you sick?’
Dr. Pasteur founded the process of pasteurization which involves heating cells of yeast in liquids to low temperature to kill off microbes. This provided a springboard to his later work in 1865 of how to stop diseases in silkworms. Then in 1877 he formed an immunization for farm animals to fight against them from contracting anthrax. …show more content…
Pasteur’s work relied on the work on others. An Italian man, Dr. Francesco Redi, used a series of tests to show that maggots come from fly eggs. Dr. Pasteur used this study to support his hypothesis that life doesn’t just appear. Sometimes when we are challenged in our beliefs, we use that opposition to delve in and end up discovering more. This is what happened in Dr. Pasteur’s life. With his early work with microbes, Pasteur found active opposition in fellow scientist Félix Archimedès Pouchet. Pouchet disagreed with Pasteur about spontaneous generation and thus started expirements to prove him wrong (yes bias was big). This drove Pasteur to continue his work and devise better experiments. This is part of being reviewed by scientific peers in the scientific
Pasteur asked many questions. Among were (paraphrased): ‘can animalcules [now known as microbes or pathogens] appear out of nowhere when there is a food source?’ and ‘how does one stop these tiny life forms from living in your food and making you sick?’
Dr. Pasteur founded the process of pasteurization which involves heating cells of yeast in liquids to low temperature to kill off microbes. This provided a springboard to his later work in 1865 of how to stop diseases in silkworms. Then in 1877 he formed an immunization for farm animals to fight against them from contracting anthrax. …show more content…
Pasteur’s work relied on the work on others. An Italian man, Dr. Francesco Redi, used a series of tests to show that maggots come from fly eggs. Dr. Pasteur used this study to support his hypothesis that life doesn’t just appear. Sometimes when we are challenged in our beliefs, we use that opposition to delve in and end up discovering more. This is what happened in Dr. Pasteur’s life. With his early work with microbes, Pasteur found active opposition in fellow scientist Félix Archimedès Pouchet. Pouchet disagreed with Pasteur about spontaneous generation and thus started expirements to prove him wrong (yes bias was big). This drove Pasteur to continue his work and devise better experiments. This is part of being reviewed by scientific peers in the scientific