Louis Pasteur's Accomplishments

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Louis Pasteur's accomplishments include being a famous chemist and microbiologist. He developed the vaccines for rabies and anthrax, and created the technique for treating milk to stop contamination, aka pasteurization. He had five children, but sadly, three died of disease. This tragedy had him focus even more on finding cures for diseases. Pasteur fought darkness intellectually through his discoveries in chemistry and microbiology.

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