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The Life of Pasteur - René Vallery-Radot |
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Author: René Vallery-Radot
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 13:03 |
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Whether to admire more the man or his method, the life or work, is left for the reader to decide. Among the researches that have made the name of Louis Pasteur a household word, three are of the first importance: a knowledge of the true nature of the processes in fermentation; a knowledge of the chief maladies which have scourged man and animals; a knowledge of the measures by which either the body may be protected against these diseases, or the poison neutralized when once within the body.
THE LIFE OF PASTEUR BY RENE VALLERY-RADOT
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY MRS. R. L. DEVONSHIRE
L'ceuvre de Pasteur est admirable ; elle montre son genie, maia il faut avoir vecu dans son intimite pour connaitre toute la bonte de son coeur. DR. Roux
POPULAR EDITION
NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1915
Printed in Great Britain
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The Life and Times of Louis Pasteur |
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Sunday, 08 February 2009 10:01 |
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A Lecture by David V. Cohn
School of Dentistry
University of Louisville
Feb. 11, 1996
We need no reminder that the foundations of our knowledge of health and disease were constructed by scientific giants who worked decades, even centuries, ago. It is with tributes such as the one today to Louis Pasteur that we pay homage to these great minds -- to acknowledge their achievements and our indebtedness to them which we can never repay.
With certainty, one hallmark of Pasteur's research was not only the importance of his individual discoveries, but the overwhelming breadth of his accomplishment. Pasteur's long time collaborator, Emile Duclaux, wrote, "A mind ... of a scientific man is a bird on the wing; we see it only when it alights or when it takes flight. ... We may by watching closely keep it in view, and point out just where it touches the earth. But why does it alight here and not there? Why has it taken this direction and not that in its flight toward new discoveries?"
Pasteur, himself, provided us with an answer: He believed that his research was "enchained" to an inescapable, forward moving logic. As we review today Pasteur's scientific discoveries we shall see the truth of this statement: how one discovery, one concept, led almost "inescapably" to another.
Education and Growing Up Pasteur was born in Ole and grew up in the nearby town of Arbois, the only son of a poorly educated tanner, Jean Pasteur. Louis was not an outstanding student during his years of elementary education, preferring fishing and drawing to other subjects. In fact, young Louis drawings suggested that he could easily have become a superior portrait Artist. His later drawings of friends done at college were so professional that Pasteur was listed in at least two compendia of XIX C. artists.The Senior Pasteur, however, did not see his son ending up as an Artist, and Louis, himself, was showing increasing interest in chemistry and other scientific subjects. The highest wish Father Pasteur had for his son was that he complete his education in the local schools and become a professor in the college at Arbois. However the headmaster of the college recognized that Louis could do much better and convinced father and son that Louis should try for the Ecole Normale Sup rieure in Paris. This most prestigious French University was founded specifically to train outstanding students for University careers in science and letters. And it was here that Pasteur entered and began his long journey of scientific discovery.
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Louis Pasteur and Carlsberg Cure the ‘Beer Disease’ |
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Author: Brendon Barnett
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Monday, 26 May 2008 00:44 |
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"The large scale production of lager beer was only made possible by the work of Louis Pasteur and Dr. Emil Hansen from the Carlsberg Laboratory in the 1880s."
Read the full article produced by the Carlsberg Laboratory here.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 May 2009 11:42 )
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Pasteur in the News
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Cut out the preservatives |
| But after Louis Pasteur proved that it was the presence of bacteria that caused food to spoil, there is a tendency to consider all microorganisms harmful. Today, food industry uses nearly 6,000 chemicals to preserve foods. Highly attractive food packaging, taste-enhancers and convenience for the busy mothers are making our next generation dependent on packaged and processed which is taking them towards many health-related disorders.
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What is Rabies? What Causes Rabies? |
| The term is derived from the Latin "rabies" meaning "madness". All human cases of rabies were fatal until a vaccine was developed in 1885 by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux. Treatment after exposure, known as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), is highly successful. A recombinant vaccine called V-RG has been successfully used to prevent outbreaks of rabies in wildlife. Currently pre-exposure immunization has been used in both human and non-human populations. In many countries domesticated animals are required to be vaccinated.
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The Sodium Hypochlorite Story |
By the end of the nineteenth century, after Louis Pasteur had discovered sodium hypochlorite's potent effectiveness against disease-causing bacteria, it became widely used as a disinfectant.
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How Pasteur Turned Over New Fields |
| On his way to achieving a new type of national heroism, Pasteur became the first person to reduce the virulence of micro-organisms, and the first exponent of two new subjects: microbiology (the study of microbes) and immunology (the study of resistance to infections).
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The Science of Breadmaking |
It wasn't until the investigations of Louis Pasteur some 150 years ago that we began to understand the nature of the leavening process.
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