Louis Pasteur: The Spontaneous Man

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Louis Pasteur: The Spontaneous Man

Spontaneous Generation thought to be the Origin of Life until the 1850's. Through a Science Fair that was sponsored by the French Academy of Science, it was Louis Pasteur who was responsible for disapproving this myth.

Introduction

This paper is about an extraordinary gentleman who made many discoveries in his lifetime; however, this will not be about one of his discovery’s rather the experiment that debunks spontaneous generation. One may want to ask what is spontaneous generation, and how was it discovered. These will be my main two main points for my paper along with a brief description of Louis Pasteur. For now I will give a small introduction as to what is spontaneous generation and some of the thought process before the discovery. For millennia, the Origin of Life was thought to be that organic life could and did arise from inorganic matter. In the late 17th century, there were duplications of how to “create life”. One for instance was to take sweaty rags, wrap them around wheat, set them in and open air jar and in 21 days, you would have created mice. All over the world, in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, mankind was formulating recipes for "creating" bees, lice, scorpions, maggots, worms, frogs, etc. (Life, Origin of)

Materials and Methods

Since the internet is like a library except without the late book fees, I was able to use this as my main support for my research. As stated in my previous research paper I started with Wikipedia however, knowing that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information, I used the resources given there to find the rest of my information. I read numerous sites about Louis Pasteur, even though I didn’t cite them; again I found the m...

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...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.

Works Cited

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Media, Mott. "Louis Pasteur." Garden of Praise. Web. http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdpast.html. Accessed 15 July 2011.

Life, Origin of. "Origin Of Life." Science - AllAboutScience.org. Web. http://www.allaboutscience.org/origin-of-life.html. Accessed 15 July 2011.

Rhee, Seung Yon. "Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)." Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum. Access Excellence. Web. http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Louis_Pasteur.php. Accessed 15 July 2011

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