Louis pasteur creative minds biography for kids

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The next time you chomp on cheese or sip some wine, remember the French scientist Louis Pasteur who discovered that spoiled milk, fermented beer and wine, and many diseases are caused by bacteria.

Millions of people are saved from bites from rabid dogs because of the rabies vaccine developed by Louis Pasteur.

Bacteria are tiny, living organisms that are only visible under a microscope. More than years ago, Pasteur discovered that heating milk between 60 to degrees Celsius kills the bacteria.

This makes the milk safe to drink.

Louis pasteur creative minds biography for kids pdf

This process was named “pasteurization” in his honor. Pasteur also showed that every food that is fermented, such as wine and beer, has one particular, safe, bacteria that cause the fermentation. He also found out that many diseases happen because of bacteria.

This became known as the Germ Theory of Disease, or the theory that the cause of most diseases is invisible-to-the-eye micro-organ