Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and microbiologist, was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, located in the Jura region of France. He lived and grew up in a town called Arbois with his father, Jean-Joseph Pasteur. Louis was very skilled at drawing and at painting from a very young age. He first got a bachelor of arts degree in 1840 and then a bachelor of science degree in 1842 at the Royal College of Besançon. He then got a doctorate in 1847 from the École Normale in Paris. After that, he spent several years researching and teaching at Dijon Lycée. In 1848, he became a chemistry professor at the University of Strasbourg. There he met Marie Laurent, and they got married on May 29th, 1849. They had 5 children but only 2 of them made it through …show more content…
He is very popular in the history of medicine and many would go on and on about his great contributions. But there we’re others before Pasteur that studied medicine and worked hard to discover the cure for the most popular diseases that we’re killing many back then. One of those people is Edward Jenner. Jenner is also very popular in the history of medicine and Pasteur build on his work to create and tests his experiments. Back then, smallpox was killing many people especially children. Jenner was always fascinated at the old tail that milkmaids we’re not affected by smallpox. They only got a weaker non-threating version called cowpox. The milkmaids would get blisters filled with pus on their hands and Jenner believed that the pus-filled blisters somehow protected them from getting smallpox. After concluding that, Jenner got some pus from the blisters of a milkmaid who had cowpox. He convinced a boy called James Phipps to be the one he was testing his theory on. For the next couple days, Jenner would insert small amounts of pus into Phipps. He did this by ‘injecting’ it into him. After a few days, he deliberately injected smallpox into him. Phipps got sick for a couple of day but then made full recovery with no side affects. This was incredible to Jenner since he had just discovered a vaccination for