Louis Pasteur Accomplishments

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I decided to learn more about Louis Pasteur. He was more amazing then I first thought. His scientific mind was brilliant. His ability to make connections between seemingly unrelated and unpopular concepts changed medicine, led to what is now microbiology, and vaccinations. More than 100 years after Louis Pasteur’s discoveries, we can still appreciated the impact he made.
Louis Pasteur kept an open mind about other scientist’s work. He would not accept just any explanation. In a letter written to Felix Archimede Pouchet about the question of spontaneous generation, Pasteur wrote “entirely open and still awaiting proof” and that all of this was “unknown and warranted experimentation” (Schwartz, para 13).
While doing research on fermentation