Louis Pasteur
Each time we go to the refrigerator and take out a bottle of milk, we should be reminded of the work of the outstanding French scientist, Louis Pasteur . Pasteur discovered that milks turns sour because of the action of tiny living organisms too small to see with the naked eye . He developed a process of gently heating foodstuffs like milks to kill these organisms without changing the flavour or nutritional value . This process, named ‘pasteurization’ in honour of its developer, is just one of Pasteur’s great contributions to mankind. Young Louis Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in the town of Dole, in eastern France, about 400 kilometres south-east of Paris . Several years later, Louis’ family moved to the nearby town of Arbois . Louis attended school in Arbois but he obtained poor results except in art . Most of his teachers thought he would just leave school and work in his father’s tannery . However, Louis had a great desire to increase his knowledge . One of his...
