Pasteur, Louis

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Pasteur, Louis

(1822-1897) French chemist and crystallographer who found microorganisms to be the cause of many diseases; known also for developing the process of “pasteurization” to kill pathogenic microorganisms in milk and for developing several vaccines; laid the foundation for stereochemistry by being the first to separate (resolve) mirror image isomers; disproved the theory of spontaneous generation of living organisms.

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