How Louis Pasteur Affected Science
Imagine red bumps crawling up your skin, slowly spreading onto your face, this is smallpox. You probably never got smallpox thankfully because of Louis Pasteur. With personal struggles, Louis Pasteur proved others wrong, saved lives and created new knowledge along the way. Louis Pasteur impacted science dramatically and without him today's world’s knowledge would be way off of what we know today.
Born December 27, 1822, Louis Pasteur spent most of his time creating beautiful art. Louis was a very skilled artist and won many local competitions. People thought that he would be a well known artist, but his father had other plans. Louis’s father expected him to be a professor at a college and he wanted Louis to finish his education. Louis got …show more content…
Louis saved the silk industry because the silkworms were dying and spreading an illness to other silkworms. According to the article, http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/z9kj2hv, Louis concluded that the industry needs to isolate the healthy silk worms and kill of the sick worms. Another industry that louis saved is the wine industry. When the wine was being transported it would spoil because of bacteria. They could boil the wine to kill off the bacteria, but it would ruin the taste. Louis figured out that if you heat the wine to 55 degrees, it kills the bacteria without affecting the …show more content…
While saving lives and industries, Louis created new knowledge along the way. For example, when saving the wine industry, Louis created the process of pasteurisation; by learning that if your heat wine to a certain temperature, it would kill the bacteria without affecting the wine.
Did you know people used to think that flies appear out of dust mites and living organisms appear out of nowhere? Louis disagreed. Even though people thought otherwise, he knew he could prove it wrong. He did so by showing that food can be contaminated by microbes in the air. With new knowledge from these experiments, Louis created the Germ Theory, the Germ Theory states that “many diseases are caused by the presence and actions of specific microorganisms,” according to the article www.science museum.org.uk. This was a major discovery in science at the time. Louis’s Germ Theory is still used today, which is surprising because we have gained new knowledge and what the Germ Theory could've easily been
Born December 27, 1822, Louis Pasteur spent most of his time creating beautiful art. Louis was a very skilled artist and won many local competitions. People thought that he would be a well known artist, but his father had other plans. Louis’s father expected him to be a professor at a college and he wanted Louis to finish his education. Louis got …show more content…
Louis saved the silk industry because the silkworms were dying and spreading an illness to other silkworms. According to the article, http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/z9kj2hv, Louis concluded that the industry needs to isolate the healthy silk worms and kill of the sick worms. Another industry that louis saved is the wine industry. When the wine was being transported it would spoil because of bacteria. They could boil the wine to kill off the bacteria, but it would ruin the taste. Louis figured out that if you heat the wine to 55 degrees, it kills the bacteria without affecting the …show more content…
While saving lives and industries, Louis created new knowledge along the way. For example, when saving the wine industry, Louis created the process of pasteurisation; by learning that if your heat wine to a certain temperature, it would kill the bacteria without affecting the wine.
Did you know people used to think that flies appear out of dust mites and living organisms appear out of nowhere? Louis disagreed. Even though people thought otherwise, he knew he could prove it wrong. He did so by showing that food can be contaminated by microbes in the air. With new knowledge from these experiments, Louis created the Germ Theory, the Germ Theory states that “many diseases are caused by the presence and actions of specific microorganisms,” according to the article www.science museum.org.uk. This was a major discovery in science at the time. Louis’s Germ Theory is still used today, which is surprising because we have gained new knowledge and what the Germ Theory could've easily been