Microbiologist and chemist whose fermentation and atmospheric-contamination experiments were central to nineteenth-century debates.
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to the fields of science and medicine. He is best known for his discoveries related to the germ theory of disease, which established that many diseases are caused by microorganisms.