Louis Pasteur

Background

A French chemist and microbiologist.

Contribution

Established the germ theory of disease and developed pasteurization and later vaccines — the scientific basis Lister applied to antiseptic surgery.

Associated inventions

• Antisepsis & Germ Theory in Surgery

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Ignaz Semmelweis
• Joseph Lister

Sources & further reading

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• U.S. National Library of Medicine — history of medicineU.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH) · Government / archive
• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia

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