Jan 4, 2010
Article abstract: Pasteur, by his pioneering work in crystallography, established the discipline of stereochemistry (left-handedness and right-handedness in organic structures). He spent the bulk of his career founding modern microbiology and making exciting discoveries in immunology.
Louis Pasteur was born in Dôle on December 27, 1822, but he grew up in Arbois, a nearby and smaller town in which his father, Jean-Joseph, a veteran of Napoleon I’s army, operated a tannery. His mother, Jeanne-Étiennette Roqui, was a gardener’s daughter....
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