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Louis Pasteur: Sciences
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Louis Pasteur died on September 28, 1895, after a long and fruitful life. His contributions to science were truly outstanding. His Christian faith sustained him through many trials. He firmly believed in creation, and strongly opposed Darwin’s theory of evolution because it did not fit well with scientific evidence.
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Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in the small French town of Dole. He grew up in the nearby town of Arbois, studying at its l'Ecole Primaire. Surprisingly, his academics were not his strong point during this period, preferring art, fishing, and activities of the sort over maths and sciences.
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Louis Pasteur was born in 1822. The year 1995 has been designated "The Year of Louis Pasteur" to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death and will be commemorated throughout the world. The events will be organized jointly by UNESCO and the Pasteur Institute to allow the scientific community to pay a tribute to one of the outstanding figures of science, a man who revolutionized the fields of biology and medicine during the second half of the 19th century.
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Louis Pasteur was born on Dec. 27, 1822, in the small town of Dôle, the son of a tanner. He studied in the college of Arbois and at Besançon, where he graduated in arts in 1840. As a student preparing for the prestigious école Normale Supérieure of Paris, he did not doubt his ability. When he gained admittance by passing fourteenth on the list, he refused entry; taking the examination again, he won third place and accepted. For his doctorate his attention was directed to the then obscure science of crystallography. This was to have a decisive influence on his career.
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Pasteur's father, a peasant farmer, refused to allow Louis to go into the field of art. Either by his father's influence or of his own accord, Pasteur's interest in the sciences skyrocketed during his college years and entered l’Ecole Normale Superieure, and from there his scientific career accelerated exponentially.
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The definitive biographies of Pasteur are René Dubos, Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science (1950), and Pierre Vallery-Radot, Louis Pasteur: A Great Life in Brief (trans. 1958). See ... Jacques Nicolle, Louis Pasteur, a Master of Scientific Enquiry (1961). For the technical achievement in microbiology see Henry James Parish, A History of Immunization (1965).
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