Definition of Louis Pasteur

1. Noun. French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895).

Exact synonyms: Pasteur
Generic synonyms: Biologist, Life Scientist, Chemist
Derivative terms: Pasteurian, Pasteurise, Pasteurize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Louis Pasteur

Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Eugene Felix Neel
Louis Henri Sullivan
Louis Henry Sullivan
Louis I
Louis II
Louis III
Louis IV
Louis IX
Louis Isadore Kahn
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Louis Joliet
Louis Jolliet
Louis Leakey
Louis Pasteur (current term)
Louis Quatorzian
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Louis Stanton Auchincloss
Louis Sullivan
Louis Untermeyer
Louis V
Louis VI
Louis VII
Louis VIII
Louis Victor de Broglie
Louis X
Louis XI
Louis XII
Louis XIII

Literary usage of Louis Pasteur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"Louis Pasteur Louis PASTEUR was born at Dole, France, December 27, 1822. His father was a tanner. In 1825 the family moved to Arbois, where Pasteur was sent ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"First, Louis Pasteur became a pupil at the small college of Arbois, from 1831 to 1839, then he was sent as an ' interne ' to the ..."

3. Beecher Memorial: Contemporaneous Tributes to the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher by Edward William Bok (1887)
"M. DOCTOR Louis Pasteur. WERE it not for my health, which for some months past has been, and is still, so very poor, ..."

4. Community Life and Civic Problems by Howard Copeland. Hill (1922)
"Louis Pasteur Few men have done more to make the world a safe place to live in. As a result of his discoveries, it is now possible to check such dread ..."

5. The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Louis PASTEUR (1822-95) The applications of science and the result. All this work, as has been frequently pointed out (R. 338), had of necessity to precede ..."

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