LIFE AND

CONTRIBUTION
OF LOUIS
PASTEUR
 INTRODUCTION

 Louis Pasteur was known as the “FATHER OF

MICROBIOLOGY”
 He was a French biologist, microbiologist and
chemist renowned for his discoveries of “The
Principles of Vaccine”.
 His medical discoveries provided direct support for
the germ theory and his application in clinical
medicine.
 He was the best known for process called
“Pasteurisation”.
 EARLY LIFE

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27,1822, in

Dole.
He grew up in the town of Arbois , Jean Joseph
Pasteur, was a tanner and a sergeant major
decorated with the Legion of Honor during the
Napoleonic Wars.
EDUCATION AND CAREER

 He was entered into primary school then he is

attended secondary school at the collage of
Arbois, in 1839.
 He earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1840 and
bachelor of science degree in 1847 at the Royal
college of Besancon.
 In 1948,he was the Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Strasburg.
 In 1854, he was studied in “the topics of
fermentation”.
 COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

The manufacture of alcoholic drinks.

Working with germ theory.
The process of pasteurisation.
The first vaccine discovery in 1879 is chicken
cholera.
 PASTEURISATION

Process which shows microbial growth in foods.

First used as the fermentation process in which
wine and milk production.
Louis explained the causes of spoilage of wine
turns into a vinegar or bitter.
He proved that this process was the result of
bacterial decomposition.
 FERMENTATION

In 1854 ,Pasteur concentrated on the

fermentation process.
Other famous chemists believed that the
fermentation was a chemical process.
Louis came to conclusion that it was a biological
process, during which yeast was reproduced.
Pasteur also wrote about alcoholic
fermentation.
 THE FIRST DISCOVERY

Louis made the first discovery in 1848 in the field

of crystallography.
Using the glass and tweezers, Pasteur carried out
the observation of crystals tartrates.
It showed that there were two of the characters,
which were their mirror reflections.
In this way, Louis discovered the secret
construction of tartratic acid.
 SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

Until the second half of the nineteenth century,

many scientists and philosophers believed that
some form of life could arise spontaneously from
nonliving matter they called this hypothetical
process Spontaneous Generation.
With a series of ingenious experiment persuasive
experiments.
Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms are
present in the air and can contaminate sterile
solutions, but air itself does not create microbes.
 EXPERIMENT PROCEDURE

1.Pasteur first poured beef broth into a long

necked flasks.
2. Next he heated the neck of the flask and
bent it into an S-shaped curve; then he boiled
the broth for several minutes.
3. Microorganisms did not appear in the cooled
solution, even after long periods.
 ANTHRAX
In the 1870s, he applied this immunization method
to anthrax, which affected cattle, and aroused
interest in combating other diseases.
Pasteur cultivated bacteria from the blood of
animals infected with anthrax.
Anthrax is an infectious disease that affects cattle,
sheep, and other livestock that can be transmitted
to man.
It was a caused by a bacteria.
It also affected people.
During this time, anthrax was responsible for killing
large population of sheep in France, and this was
detrimental to the economy.
 DEATH

 He died in St. Cloud on 28th September 1895.

 He was buried in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.
 Currently, the remains of Louis Pasteur are stored in the crypt in the
Pasteur Institute of Paris.
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