Arguably the greatest scientist of all time was born on this day in 1822 in Dole, France. Louis Pasteur developed microbiology, bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. Thanks to him, beer, wine and milk are safe for consumption by billions of people. Pasteur transformed the art of variolation into the science of vaccination. the elimination of smallpox and the near-elimination of polio are due to the principles and methods developed by Pasteur. He proved that spontaneous generation was a myth.
Pasteur was, above all, an experimenter. He believed in testing and retesting, to ensure that any bias on the part of the experimenter was removed. If he got the result he anticipated, he checked to ensure that he was seeing the truth, not just what he wanted to see.
It is not an exaggeration to say that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, owe their chance to live full lives to Dr. Pasteur.
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