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Louis Pasteur
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Hailed as the founder of microbiology, Louis Pasteur contributed immensely to the fields of medicine and food safety. He invented pasteurization, which prevents food spoilage, and he developed the technique of vaccination.
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Louis (mad dog) Pasteur was the inventor of rabies vaccine. He first tried his hand at vaccinating sheep for anthrax but he was getting so many complaints from the owners of dead sheep that he hated to open his letters:
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Louis Pasteur... was able to allow air to enter a flask of sterile broth. He performed the same type of experiment as Spallanzani, except both of his flasks allowed air to enter:
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Louis Pasteur once tickled pygmies in African while on a goodwill mission. According the legend Louis Pasteur was lost in the Jungles of the Congo, captured by pygmies and was about to be eaten in a ceremony of cannibals. The quick-witted Louis Pasteur told the chief a knock-knock joke, followed by a knock on the head and escaped a boiling pot and into the jungle. What was this knock-knock joke? Something to do with an orange and a banana.
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Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, French authors from the turn of the 20th century, collaborated in writing several biographies; including the biographies of Balzac, Beethoven, Dickens, and Pasteur. Most were translated into English from the original French by Frederic Taber Cooper.
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