King 1 Stevie King Mrs. Jones AP World History 22 May 2014 The Impact of Louis Pasteur Have you ever received a vaccine in order to prevent a disease? Well, you can thank Louis Pasteur for that. Louis Pasteur is considered by many to be the foremost medical mind of his time, and he pioneered many medical practices that are still in use to this day. Louis Pasteur is most definitely one of the world’s top 100 most influential persons because of his experimentation regarding germ theory, Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France in 1822. He was born the son of a poor tanner, so growing up his social status was low. However, he was able to go to school. At first, though, he did not study science he studied math. He then studied science in eastern France, when in college, and his professor even said that he was “mediocre in chemistry” (Hart). After receiving his doctorate in 1847 he was quick, however to prove that his professor had been quite wrong. His research regarding isomers of tartaric acid made his name well known around the world by the age of only 26. Louis Pasteur was very important to the world of science and medicine. However, he started his career working with liquids, such as beer and wine. Early on in his career, his help was enlisted by a man by the name of Bigo, who was a beer maker with a problem. Many of King 3 Bigo’s beers had been turning sour and he did not know why so Pasteur began to do research. According to www.historylearningsite.co.uk, after observing the beer, he discovered that there were tiny organisms in the liquid, and he determined that those microbes were responsible for the beer going sour. He continued this research with other liquids than just beer, such as, wine, milk, and vinegar. Regardless of ... ... middle of paper ... ...ess rate of Pasteur’s vaccine. The long term effects Pasteur has had on the world are many. From the vaccination of rabies to new and improved antiseptic practices in surgery, Pasteur has left a lasting mark on the history of medicine. He has also left a lasting mark on France, his native country, and is considered one of “the greatest benefactors of humanity” (Access Excellence). King 4 Because of his impact on the medical community one cannot help but rank Louis Pasteur at or near the top when considering the top 100 most influential persons in history. He changed the way people thought about germs and diseases, revolutionized antiseptic practices and developed a vaccine to prevent the painful and deadly disease of rabies. Louis Pasteur will continue to have an impact on modern life long after his death, which is why he is the most important medical mind ever.
Claude Monet played an essential role in a development of Impressionism. He created many paintings by capturing powerful art from the world around him. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Later, his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, France because of his father’s business. Claude Monet did drawings of the nature of Normandy and time spent along the beaches and noticing the nature. As a child, his father had always wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but he was interested in becoming an artist. He was known by people for his charcoal caricatures, this way he made money by selling them by the age of 15. Moreover, Claude went to take drawing lessons with a local artist, but his career in painting had not begun yet. He met artist Eugène Boudin, who became his teacher and taught him to use oil paints. Claude Monet
The questions that Pasteur asked had to with the passing of disease from one animal to another or from human to human. Scientists that opposed his work firmly believed that infectious disease was spontaneous, just like the fermentation of meat or dairy. He set out to prove them wrong.
Vaccines have been used to prevent diseases for centuries, and have saved countless lives of children and adults. The smallpox vaccine was invented as early as 1796, and since then the use of vaccines has continued to protect us from countless life threatening diseases such as polio, measles, and pertussis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) assures that vaccines are extensively tested by scientist to make sure they are effective and safe, and must receive the approval of the Food and Drug Administration before being used. “Perhaps the greatest success story in public health is the reduction of infectious diseases due to the use of vaccines” (CDC, 2010). Routine immunization has eliminated smallpox from the globe and led to the near removal of wild polio virus. Vaccines have reduced some preventable infectious diseases to an all-time low, and now few people experience the devastating effects of measles, pertussis, and other illnesses.
A time where vaccines were beneficial was when small poxs found its way around the human population. It was only till the end of the 18th century where an effective vaccination created by Edward Jenner was made for
A “vaccine” or otherwise known as a vaccination, is something that stimulates someone’s immune system from a disease. Vaccines can prevent infections and actually cause it to not re-occur again. The invention of the Rabies, and Anthrax vaccines not only saved life’s, but helped scientist conduct and produce more accurate and successful research. Discovered by Louis Pasteur, in 1882, the innovation of the rabies vaccine was invented. Rabies is a critical and sometimes fatal infection that one could get with coming in contact with a “rabid” or wild animal. When this virus enters the body and spreads, it travels slowly through all the nerves and all the way to the brain. Once it reaches the brain, it becomes fatal. The number of deaths due to rabies worldwide each year is approximately 55,000. However, due to the invention of the rabies vaccine, the number of fatalities and illnesses decreased by a substantial amount.
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French
The intention of this paper is to examine the significant and enduring impact Louis Pasteur had on public health and wonderful advances in medicines and invention of vaccines. Louis Pasteur was a truly talented person who made many various discoveries in different areas of science. He invented Pasteurization, the process of treating milk free of damage causing microorganisms (Louis Pasteur, 2014). In 1843, Louis enrolled at the Ecole Normale Supe´rieure in Paris, where he focused in the origins of life. During the time he was professor in Strasbourg, France, he started investigating fermentation, which is a chemical process that breaks down organic substance. Pasteur became drawn to the field of transmittable diseases and the discovery of a vaccine against fowl cholera that can be considered as the birth of immunology (Berche, 2012). In 1854, he became professor of chemistry and was elected as a member of the French Academy of Medicine (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002). In 1856, Pasteur was chosen as the administrator of scientific studies of the École Normale Supérieure. Pasteur wrote several books and journals (Thefamouspeople.com.2014). In 1895, Pasteur studied rabies in 1882, which is a transmittable disease spread by the bite of rabies-infected animals, and spent many hours in his laboratory in search of a vaccine to prevent rabies (HowstuffWorks.com. 2009).
Louis Pasteur was a profound scientist that changed the way that humanity survives in this world through the amazing discoveries of medicine. Louis originally endeavored in his journey of discovering medicine by his curiosity as to why and how alcohol derived from beets was going sour. His motivation was relatively small, so it seemed at the time. In fact it was almost a seemingly side project of his.
The chemist I have chosen is Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. As you might know, he was a fabulous chemist. Antoine Lavoisier is famous for formulating the theory of the chemical reactivity of oxygen. He also co-authored the modern system for the nomenclature of chemical substances. I have chosen this chemist because he is not one of those people that boast about all their accomplishments, but his achievements are crucial to science development. Antoine kept his accomplishments to himself. All of his achievements are fascinating to me. In this biography, I will be talking about his background, main accomplishments, and my opinion about his interesting story.
Any individual is recognized, by a certain name, which was given to him or her by many has to earn the name by doing something that helps, benefits, or teaches them something. For example, Louis is known by many because of what he at some point in his live discovered or invented, which is repeatedly used today. In addition, in 1861 Pasteur coordinated an experiment, and experiment in which he “demonstrated that air contains microorganisms, he’s experiment was done by filtering air through a cotton plug, tapping microorganisms; then examining the trapped microbes in a microscope” which lead to him discovering that air is not as clean as many thought, but that it contain microbes (Andersone). If a discovery like that had not taken place, many people today would get ill without knowing that it could have been an airborne pathogen, or microbe he or she came in contact with while inhaling
...medicine such as stereochemistry, microbiology, bacteriology, virology, immunology, and molecular biology. Moreover, his work has protected millions of people from disease through vaccination and pasteurization.
Although fermentation has been known of for at least 8,000 years, in 1865 Louis Pasteur was the scientist who really discovered the process of fermentation. At this time, Pastuer was the Dean and professor of chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences in Lille, France. He was originally asked by a friend to investigate difficulties he was having manufacturing alcohol by the fermentation of beetroot. Often, instead of alcohol, the fermentations were resulting in lactic acid. At that time, fermentation leading to the production of wine, beer, and vinegar was believed to be a simple and straightforward breakdown of sugar to the desired molecules. It was believed that the chemical breakdown of sugar into alcohol during the fermentation of wine and beer was due to the presence of inherent unstabilizing vibrations. Yeast cells were found in the fermenting vats of wine and were known as living organisms, yet they were only believed to be either a product of fermentation or catalytic ingredients that provided useful ingredients for fermentation to proceed.
Louis Pasteur was one of the most important scientists of our time. The foundation of our knowledge about health and disease comes from the discoveries of this one man. He made many discoveries and solutions for problems of the every day life that are still in effect today.
Alexander-Gustave Eiffel was an only son and the first child of Catherine- Melanie Eiffel and Francois-Aleixandre. He was born on December 15, 1832, in Dijon, France. Eiffel’s dad was a soldier in the French army, and he had run away from his wealthy family. He had to go back to Dijon, France, where an army was stationed there. That was where he had met Catherine Eiffel, and later married her and became one of Mrs. Eiffel’s family of wealthy lumber merchants. Eiffel recalled that in Dijon, his childhood was one of the happiest times of his life. Eiffel was really close to his mother. Therefore, she was the one who taught him a lot of the early education things. That is how he got his intelligence. Eiffel also looked forward to Sundays, because his uncle, jean batiste mollerat. He was a successful chemist. He would go to Eiffel’s home every Sunday, and teach his chemistry to Eiffel. Later in his life, Eiffel went to a nearby Royal School where he thought was a place of wasting time and not learning anything, and his grades were very low. Later he stated that that school was the worst part of his life. His last 2 years of school were great. Thanks to his teacher’s effort, he was especially great in the subjects of Science and Literature. His grades soon got so much better the he graduated with a double baccalaureate on literature and science. After graduation, he had to get rea...