Louis Pasteur

 

 

 

Pays/Ville

Dôle, France

 

Details Personnels:

Today, when you drink milk do you want to feel save doing so? Do you want to store beer without it going bad after 3 days? Well due to my extensive research on microbacteria I invented the process of firmentation and pasteurization. Pasteurization is the process of heating, usually beer or milk, to kill off bacteria that can harm people drinking it or that cause the item to become bad. After seeing how many people were suffering under rabies and other diseases i decided to to something about that, following I developed several vaccines against rabies and also reduced mortality from puerperal fever. All my experiments involved my own theory, the germ theory. The Germ theory explains that there must be a microscopic organism causing disease.

 

Date de Naissance:

December 27, 1822

Date de Mort:

September 28, 1895

Sexe:

Male

Croyances Politiques:

I support the monarchy as I need their patronage

Oligarch

Republican

Liberal

etc.

 

Croyances Religieuses:

Christian Catholic

 

Situation de Famille:

Married to Marie Laurent

Enfants:

They had 5 children, however, only 2 survived until they were grown up. The surviving son was Jean-Baptiste,1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829: and a daughter, Marie-Louise,19-Jul-1858, 9-Sep-1934.

En Cherchant:

Friendship, networking

Metier:

Scientist, concentrating on chemistry.

 

Interets/Loisirs:

• Starting at a young age, I always wanted to be a professor
• Since I was young I have been interested in painting
• Schoolmaster
• I claim that there is some kind of micro organsism that influences us

 

Accomplissements:

Achievements:

  

• I Invented the process of pasteurisation
• I established the Theory of Germs, in which non-living matter is the cause of diseases
• With the help of the french folk I established the Louis Pasteur Institute

Education:

 

• I attended to Cummunal College of Arbois

 

Romans Favoris:

• Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine & on the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

• The Collected Writings

• World's Debt to Pasteur: Proceedings of a Centennial Symposium Commemorating the First Rabies Vaccination, Held at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, January 17-18, 1985

• Founders of Modern Medicine 

 

Musique Preferee:

 

• Louis Antoine Jullien
• Georges Bizet
• Léo Delibes

 

Personnage que je voudrais rencontrer et pourquoi:

 

• Lord Lister, because he had the same concerns as I did and we worked together for a while.

• Claude Bernard, since we worked on the first working experiment of fermentation together. 

 

Amis:

 

• M.J. B. Dumas

• Jean Baptiste
• Charles Chamberland

 

Favorite Play:

 

• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

 

Sports:

 

• enjoy soccer, even if i am not that great

 

Citation Memorable:

 

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur

 

Mon Influence sur la Culture Francaise

You should come up with a well written 3-4 paragraphs about how your person influenced french culture.  This should be based on all the things you researched above.

**NEED THIS**

 

     Although I am from a rich country, before my time there were only few scientists that were as significant as me in the study of chemistry.Through my extensive research and experiments I made it possible for not only noble people to be able to drink milk safely. The process I used for this is called "pasteurization", which is obviously named after myself, Louis Pasteur. All my studies can be better explained with important parts of my life.

     I was born in Dôle, France on December 27 1822. As a child it has always been my dream to become a professor. Although I was interested in science, my biggest passion was art, I drew tons of pictures, that were not only, however, mostly about science or nature. I graduated in Arts in 1840. After that I started studying physics and chemistry. I became a physics professor, and continued studying chemistry. After I presented an experiment about crystallography to an authorized person, I became famous, then I was 26 years old. I received the Copley Medal as a reward for my hard work. Since my work was deeply appreciated I was offered a chair in chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. At the University I found my wife and a very good opportunity to continue my work on crystallography. A couple years later I got a job in which I researched fermentation of Wine, Vinegar, and Beer. Fermentation is a process in which fruit juice transforms to be alcohol, however, this led me to the problem that these products cannot be stored or it is very hard to do and to be able to drink these products safely.

     This opened a new chapter of my life. I started researching the reason for why these products went bad so fast. After a long time I found that it was bacteria that caused this. Now I searched for a solution to this, which ended up to be a process called pasteurization. During pasteurization the drink is heated to a certain temperature so that the bacteria loses its function by eventually dying. This killed the bacteria that made drinking milk or beer a risk, but also extended the storing time capacity of the products.

     The last thing I did as a chemist was making vaccins. While I saw people suffering of rabies, just as I did with pasteurizastion, I thought that there must be a way to stop this. I examined rabies and its factors, and made testing vaccins. One day a boy was brought to me, he was bitten by a rabit dog 14 times. This was the time to test my vaccin, after a 12 day period and continued vaccins, the boy recovered and the vaccin was completed. This was the most significant thing in my life. It also changed the views of many people about me, however, this made me very popular and I was extremely honored. There was an Institute built in my name. When in 1940 a german officer wanted to know the secret to my tomb, the guard refused to tell and killed himself, this ... was the boy I saved from rabies 55 years ago.

 

Gallery:

 

Resources:

 

"Louis Pasteur." Scientists: Their Lives and Works, Vols. 1-7. Online Edition. U*X*L, 2006.

Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

"It is a prejudiced assumption that science and religion are incompatible human activities." The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland) (Jan 4, 2007): 14. InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. Gale. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL. 2 June 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.

 

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