Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole, Jura. He then grew up in Arbois and ended up living in this littl town part of his adulthood.
Sam and I went to visit his house transformed now in a museum. I couldn't take pictures inside but I really liked the tulips that day in Arbois. Arbois is just 35 minutes away from where our parents live in le Jura.
"...Pasteur is best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease, also reducing mortality from puerperal fever (childbed), and he created the first vaccine for rabies. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness - this process came to be called Paseurization. He is buried beneath the Institute Pasteur, a rare honor in France, where being buried in a cemetery is mandatory save for the fewer than 300 "Great Men" who are entombed in the Panthéon in Paris..."
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