Louis Pasteur Major Accomplishments

Louis Pasteur wasn’t Einstein or Leonardo Da Vinci but his contributions to society played a major role in health. He contributed to science, technology, and medicine. Pasteur was one of the most important founders of medicine and microbiology. We can’t help but wonder how much of a change he would’ve made if he still was alive. One of his biggest accomplishments was pasteurization treatment which resolves pathogenic micro-organisms in certain foods and beverages. Pasteur was born in Dole, France. He was born on December 27th
, 1822 and died on September 28th, 1895. His father, Jean Joseph Pasteur, was a tanner. He had five siblings and was the middle child. His family had been leather tanners for generations. Louis Pasteur became interested …show more content…
He then earned a doctorate from the E’cole Normale in Paris. Pasteur then spent some years researching and teaching as a chemistry professor at the University of Strasbourg. He met Marie Laurent and fell in love with her. Marie was actually the rectors’ daughter. Later on got married and had 5 children and only 2 survived brain tumor. In 1854 Pasteur became a chemistry professor and dean of the science faculty at the University of Lille. He worked on finding solutions with the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. Then his germ theory he didn’t invent but he convinced people by doing an experiment. The experiment was to boil the liquid and let it cool off. His process was called pasteurization. It was completed or tested on April 20th, 1862. In 1865 he helped prove that microbes were hurting the healthy silk worm eggs. Pasteur’s solution was to destroy the microbes. He ended up coming up with a method to stop contamination and it began to get used by silk producers throughout the world. His very first vaccine was discovered in 1879. It was the cure to a disease called chicken cholera. The disease was discovered by a farmer when they accidentally exposed chicken to the