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Written by Discovery Channel
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This is an excerpt from the Discovery Channel production How Beer Saved the World.
Beer was the basis of modern medicine. It all started in 1850s with scientist Louis Pasteur. He invented pasteurization. Tragically, people always link him to this, milk. But he was actually studying this: beer. Some people think he was looking at milk, but in fact, he was actually looking at beer and beer was the first beverage, actually, to be pasteurized. Pasteur started by trying to answer a vexing question:
Why does beer sometimes spoil?
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Written by Brendon Barnett
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This clip from the 1935 film The Story of Louis Pasteur features a scene of professor Pasteur speaking to students at the university where he says:
You young men, doctors and scientists of the future, do not let yourselves be tainted by apparent skepticism. Nor discouraged by the sadness of certain hours that creep over nations. Do not become angry at your opponents. For no scientific theory has ever been accepted without opposition. Live in the serene peace of libraries and laboratories. Say to yourselves first, "What have I done for my instruction?" And as you gradually advance, "What am I accomplishing," until the time comes when you may have the immmense happiness of thinking that you have contributed in some way to the welfare and progress of mankind.
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Written by Brendon Barnett
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Description: This film documents the influence of the two pioneers of bacteriology, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
Length: 15:18
Originally Aired: January 1, 1990
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Written by Mike Vandernat
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Louis Pasteur's first discovery and the point of embarkation for everything to follow in his prodigious carrer, including stereochemistry, bio-optical chemistry, fermentation, germ theory, and of course, the separation between living and non-living processes.
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