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What nationality was Louis Pasteur? |
French |
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Why was Louis Pasteur significant? |
Pasteur discovered that micro organisms (germs) caused disease and not the other way round, which was the belief in the 19th century. |
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What year was Pasteur’s Germ Theory published? |
1861 |
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What did the Germ Theory say? |
Microscopic bacteria could cause problems and they could be killed by heating & pasteurisation. That’s why we use the term “pasteurised” today! |
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What year had he proved the link between germs and disease? |
1865 |
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Name 2 vaccines Pasteur and his team had developed. |
Anthrax & Rabies |
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How did Pasteur and his assistant, Charles Chamberland, find a cure for chicken cholera? |
Chamberland injected a chicken with a cholera germ and it did not become ill, after trying with fresh germs, the chicken still didn’t become ill, Pasteur then realised that the old germs caused the chicken to develop immunity. |
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What was Pasteur asked to do by a French winemaker in the 1850s? |
Investigate why the wine was going off, he used a microscope to see that there was a bacteria in the wine, Pasteur heated the wine to kill the bacteria. |
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Who’s was Louis Pasteur’s German rival? |
German physician & microbiologist, Robert Koch |
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When was Pasteur’s death? |
1895. But even after Pasteur, vaccinations continued to be developed and then some were made compulsory in the 20th century. |
