Louis Pasteur

by Natalie, grade 3, age 8


Louis Pasteur was born Dec27,1822, in Dole France. In the 1850 's- 1880 's, Louis Pasteur discovered germs and many other things too. By the age of 26 , Pasteur was famous for his work on the structture of crystals. He proved that lots of diseases come from not washing your hands and spreading germs from your hands to your body. He proved that heat can be used for killing germs, known as pasteurization. Today, almost all the milk is pasteurized. He proved that germs multiply through your body. Louis Pasteur proved lots and lots of other thing too. Louis studied in 1881 about rabies and deadly diseases caused by animals.


There is a lot of information at the Louis Pasteur Institute.
There is also Lucid Interactive's page about Louis Pasteur.

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