Louis Pasteur
About the Louis Pasteur Lesson
Summary
This lesson introduces students to Louis Pasteur.
Objectives
• To be able to describe briefly the life of Louis Pasteur.
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To be able to list the main contributions and achievements of Pasteur.
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To be able to identify some of the main scientific and medicinal problems at the time of Pasteur.
Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
Excerpt
Louis Pasteur was born on 27th December 1822 and died on 28th September 1895. He was a famous French chemist and biologist. He is considered to have founded the science of microbiology.
He was born in a small town in France near the Swiss borders. In 1847, he got his doctorate in science from the Ecole Normale in Paris. After teaching in a couple of cities in France, called Dijon and Strasbourg, Pasteur was offered to head the science department and became a professor of chemistry at the Lille University in 1854.
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