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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (pronounced: [pastřʁ] December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French
chemist and microbiologist
born in Dole.
He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions
of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal
fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies. His
experiments supported the germ theory of disease. He was best known to
the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing
sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization.
He is regarded as one of the three main founders of microbiology,
together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch.
Pasteur also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the
molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals.[1]
His body lies beneath the Institute
Pasteur in Paris in a spectacular vault covered in depictions of his
accomplishments in Byzantine
mosaics.[2]
Pasteur's faith
was as genuine as his science.
In his panegyric
of Littré, whose fauteuil he took, he said:
Happy the man who bears within him a
divinity, an ideal of beauty and obeys it; and ideal of art, and ideal of
science, an ideal of country, and ideal of the virtues of the Gospel.
These words are
graven above his tomb in the Institut Pasteur. In his address Pasteur said
further "These are the living
springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the
reflections from the Infinite".
Some of his
letters to his children breathe profound simple piety. He declared "The more I know, the more nearly is
my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the
faith of a Breton peasant woman."
What he could
not above all understand is the failure of scientists to recognize the
demonstration of the existence of the Creator that there is in the world around
us.
He died with his rosary in his hand,
after listening to the life of St. Vincent de Paul which he had asked to have
read to him, because he thought that his work like that of St. Vincent would do
much to save suffering children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Louis_Pasteur
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