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27 unusual facts about Louis Pasteur


1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

The germ theory was not created at this point (as Louis Pasteur would not create it until 1861), so Snow was unaware of the mechanism by which the disease was transmitted, but evidence led him to believe that it was not due to breathing foul air.

Agostinho da Silva

Among the books he wrote, there are biographies of Michelangelo, Pasteur and St. Francis of Assisi, and his most influential book is, probably, Sete Cartas a Um Jovem Filósofo (Seven Letters to a Young Philosopher).

Andon, Alpes-Maritimes

The hygienism of the 19th century (based on the findings of Louis Pasteur) created the fashion of staying in Thorenc as a climate station using therapy for hygiene.

Anna Kingsford

Alan Pert, one of her biographers, wrote that Kingsford was caught in torrential rain in Paris in November 1886 on her way to the laboratory of Louis Pasteur, one of the most prominent vivisectionists of the period.

Canned fish

The reason for lack of spoilage was unknown at the time, since it would be another 50 years before Louis Pasteur demonstrated the role of microbes in food spoilage.

Carbonic maceration

Some of the earliest documented studies on the process were conducted by the French scientist Louis Pasteur who noted in 1872 that grapes contained in an oxygen rich environment prior to crushing and fermentation produced wines of different flavors than grapes produced in a carbon dioxide rich environment.

Heinz Memorial Chapel

These represent St. Luke’s and Jesus’ spiritual progeny: in charity, St. Francis of Assisi; in imagination, Leonardo da Vinci ; in understanding, Newton; in healing, Pasteur; in eloquence, Wordsworth; in leadership, Lincoln; in thought, Emerson.

Homebrewing

French microbiologist Louis Pasteur explained the role of yeast in beer fermentation in 1857, allowing brewers to develop strains of yeast with desirable properties (conversion efficiency, ability to handle higher alcohol content).

Julien Musafia

Honours and prizes include the following: Paul Ciuntu Prize awarded by the Royal Academy of Music, Bucharest, Romania; the George Enescu Medal (Romania, 1995); First Prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Society (U.S.A.); the Louis Pasteur Awards in 1981 and again in 1983; two awards given by the California State University at Long Beach, CA.

Lennart Nilsson

When he was approximately fifteen, he saw a documentary about Louis Pasteur that made him interested in microscopy.

Luigi Frari

His inaugural dissertation on rabies from 1840 represents an expample of conceptions of that disease in first half of 19th century, before Louis Pasteur's time.

Lycée Pasteur

Lycée Pasteur can refer to several schools named after Louis Pasteur.

Marnes-la-Coquette

A portion of the area of Marnes-la-Coquette was granted to Louis Pasteur in order for him to continue his research after his discovery of the vaccine against rabies in 1885.

New York Academy of Sciences

Since its beginnings, Academy membership has included prominent leaders in the sciences, business, academia and government, including Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Margaret Mead, and Albert Einstein.

Paris Métro Line 6

The panels describe the evolution of biology and medicine since the work of Louis Pasteur and their legal framework and application.

Pasteur Island

Named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1951–52, for Louis Pasteur, famous French chemist who made notable contributions to medical science.

Pébrine

Louis Pasteur was the first one to recognize the cause of this disease when a plague of the disease spread across France.

Ralph Bates

Bates was born in Bristol, England, of French ancestry (he was the great-great-nephew of French scientist Louis Pasteur) and educated at Trinity College Dublin.

Rodd Island

Louis Pasteur sent his nephew, Doctor Adrien Loir to conduct the experimentation in Australia and facilities were constructed on the island.

Pasteur was interested because he had been conducting similar research in France and Henry Parkes had offered a 25,000 pound reward to anyone who could solve the rabbit infestation problem.

San Rafael High School

The school is often cited as the origin (1971) of the time and codeword 420 in drug culture; originally "420" served as a code word for "The Waldos", a group of marijuana users who would meet in front of a statue of Louis Pasteur at 4:20 P. M. to smoke marijuana, both near the statue and at other clandestine locations on campus grounds.

Soufli

At the same time, the discovery of a method to fight against the diseases of cocoons by Louis Pasteur contributed to the fast development of sericulture.

Stephen Paget

In addition to other publications, he also wrote a book about Louis Pasteur titled "Pasteur and After Pasteur" while holding the position of Honorable Secretary of the Research Defence Society.

Swan neck duct

Louis Pasteur discovered that this method slows bacteria from gathering in the test tube in 1862 during one of his many chemical and microbiological tests.

The Genesis According to Spiritism

This chapter is particularly sore for Spiritists because it actually accepts spontaneous generation as fact: a phenomenon that took place every day (which was according to mainstream scientific thinking of that time, only to be displaced decades later by the work of Louis Pasteur).

The Story of San Michele

He associated with a number of celebrities of his times, including Jean-Martin Charcot, Louis Pasteur, Henry James, and Guy de Maupassant, all of whom figure in the book.

Valladolid Science Museum

Besides an area dedicated to Castilla y León inventions and inventors there is an eleven metre high 80 kg Foucault Pendulum as well as a display of Louis Pasteur's work improving wine production.


Adolf Hempt

He stabilized Pasteur's vaccine against rabies so that it could be distributed to distant places.

Harry Luman Russell

He went to Europe for further study under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur; first at the University of Berlin, then at the Zoological Station in Naples, and finally at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Kristaps Helmanis

When Louis Pasteur created a vaccine against rabies in 1886, Kristaps Helmanis devoted himself to research of rabies in St Petersburg and reported his results to the Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg, who supported his studies.

Penicillium glaucum

Louis Pasteur would build on this discovery, noting that Bacillus anthracis would not grow in the presence of the related mold Penicillium notatum.