People · researcher
Louis Pasteur
1822–1895 · Microbiology
- Lifespan
- 1822–1895
- Field
- Microbiology
- Nationality
- French
Known For
Germ theory, and the swan-neck flask that ended spontaneous generation. He also discovered molecular chirality by sorting two mirror-image tartrate crystals under a lens with tweezers.
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