Blog 7: A scientist whom I admire

Hi everyone, today I am going to talk about a person that I admire; Louis Pasteur.

Louis Pasteur, was born on December 27, 1822 was a french chemist and bacteriologist.

Pasteur in his childhood and adolescence he showed neither great interest nor stood out in the scientific area, however, over the years, and after entering the world of the arts, he became professor of Physics and Chemistry.

At age 32, in  1854, he had already been appointed dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lille, France. It would be in 1888 when he founded his own institute, which to this day bears his name, and here he was the director until the day of his death, September 28, 1895 caused by a cardiac arrest.

Among his main contributions to the world of science, we can find:

• Discovery and development of the pasteurization process, which consists in a technique of thermal treatment to foods (usually liquids) for the elimination of microorganisms.
• Refute through experimentation the theory of "Spontaneous generation", which established that certain life forms arose spontaneously from organic matter.
• Discover that infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms.

Personally, I like Pasteur because, regardless that in his time he did not have great technological advances, like the ones that we have today, he managed to develop techniques and research which were the basis of what exist today, being a pioneer of great advances that have helped society in an excellent way. It also causes intrigue, given that if under those possibilities he managed to develop his studies, what would he have been able to discover in the current world? The same question comes to me with great minds like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, among others, who stood out in their time thanks to their intelligence and who, had they had greater technological support, could have achieved incredible discoveries.