louis pasteur

     

You'll find this Frenchman's name on almost all milk cartons

Trivia about louis pasteur

  • He taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts while developing his bacteria-killing process for drinks like milk
  • Paul Muni won an Oscar for his performance in this role, which he "milked" for all it was worth
  • Linus Pauling had the same initials as this other chemist who lived in France 100 years earlier
  • Paul Muni triumphs with his rabies vaccine in a 1936 biopic of this Frenchman
  • In 1872 physiology prof. Pierre Pachet said this Frenchman's theory of germs was "ridiculous fiction"
  • This Frenchman was "The Father of Bacteriology"
  • He discovered that heating wine killed the microbes that make it turn sour
  • Scientist who did something about notes from his wife like the one seen here:"The milk is sour again, mon cheri"
  • This French chemist presented his germ theory of fermentation in an 1857 paper, "On Lactic Fermentation"
  • In the 1860s this chemist saved France's wine industry by showing that microbes can be killed with heat
  • In 1885 this French chemist first used his rabies vaccine, on a boy named Joseph Meister
  • Beer lovers rejoiced when he invented Pasteurization in 1864
  • Chemist Hilaire Chardonnet, who invented rayon, had worked under this man when he was researching silk & silkworms
  • For a 1936 film bio, Paul Muni won an Oscar for portraying this French scientist
  • In 1857 this French chemist's theory of fermentation was first presented in a paper "on Lactic Fermentation"