Pasteur

American

[pa-stur, pah-stœr] / pæˈstɜr, pɑˈstœr /

noun

Louis 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.

Pasteur British

/ pastœr /

noun

Louis (lwi). 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist. His discovery that the fermentation of milk and alcohol was caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization. He also devised methods of immunization against anthrax and rabies and pioneered stereochemistry

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Pasteur Scientific

/ păs-tûr′ /

French chemist who founded modern microbiology. His early work with fermentation led him to invent the process of pasteurization. Pasteur established that microorganisms cause communicable diseases and infections.

Other Word Forms

Pasteurian adjective

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Smoke was rising over Tehran's Pasteur district, site of the home of Khamenei, and there was a huge security deployment in the capital.

From Barron's

To better understand what role disease may have played in this collapse, researchers from the Institut Pasteur's Microbial Paleogenomics Unit partnered with the Laboratory of Biocultural Anthropology at Aix Marseille University.

From Science Daily

Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that microbes can cause illness.

From Salon

The idea of mirror life was first floated in 1860 by Louis Pasteur, of vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization fame.

From Salon

He was a lowly lab assistant at the Pasteur Institute in Paris when he first collected the data that would lead to the discovery of bacteriophages.

From Salon

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