Louis Pasteur

Place of Birth: Dolce, France

Lifespan: 1822-1895
Cause of Death: Suffering from multiple strokes

What was he known for?

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his
discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and
pasteurization, the last of which was named after him. He is known as the father of
microbiology

He invented the process that bears his name, pasteurization (packaged and
unpackaged food are subjected to a light heating procedure which typically
involves temperatures of less than 100℃). Pasteurization kills microbes and
prevents spoilage in beer, milk and other goods. Most famously, he discovered that
milk’s bacteria can be destroyed by heating, therefore developing ‘Pasteurized
Milk’.

Pasteur developed practices that are still used today for preventing disease in
silkworm eggs.

He also developed some of the world’s earliest vaccines against fowl cholera,
anthrax and rabies.