Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was a French scientist who was born in Dole and
grew up in the nearby the town of Arbois. He was the only son
of a poorly educated tanner, Jean Pasteur, she gave birth to
him on the 27th of December 1822, in his first few years at
school he wasn’t the greatest pupil. His favourite things were
either fishing or another subject, one subject he was
outstanding at was art (especially portraits) he could have
easily become a very good professional portrait artist. His
father however had other plans, he did not see his son growing
up to be an artist, at this point he was starting to take a lot
more interest in scientific subjects like ‘Chemistry’. His father
ideally wanted him to finish his education in local schools and
then become a professor at the college in Arbois, This time his
father had other ideas, he persuaded Louis and his father for
him to try for the Ecole Normale Sup rieure in Paris. This
important university was founded especially for outstanding
pupils who could be trained to become famous and amazing
scientists like Louis Pasteur was.

The flask Experiment

 The flask experiment was when Louis Pasteur took a normal
straight necked flask, he heated the neck of it and then bent it
into the shape of a swan’s neck, and this is where it got its
name the swan flask. He then put some nutrient broth into the
flask and left it, he did some with the end of the swan neck
closed off and some with it open. This experiment showed that
the bacterium gets caught in the dip of the swan neck. With the
neck off it was letting air in so it got the bacteria to the broth
but when the end was closed off the bacteria would get caught
in the dip of the swan neck. At the end of the experiment it
showed that when the end was closed off the broth stayed
clear but when the end wasn’t on the broth went cloudy and
horrible.

Pasteurisation
Pasteurisation is when milk is heated to a high temperature to
rid it of all its bacteria.
Here is a diagram to show what a pasteurisation machine looks
like:
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Bibliography
ambafrance-ca.org/HYPERLAB/PEOPLE/_pasteur.html

www.louisville.edu/library/ ekstrom/special/pasteur/cohn.html

www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/pasteur.html

Pictures
www.personal.psu.edu/.../ jel5/micro/pasteu32.jpg

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http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/deicon/vat.html