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<h1 id="title">Louis Pasteur</h1>
<h2>Chemist, Scientist, Inventor</h2>
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<figcaption id="img-caption">Portrait of Louis Pasteur by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadar_(photographer)" target="_blank">Nadar</a></figcaption>
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<h3 id="headline">Timeline of Louis Pasteur's Life</h2>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1822">1822</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis was born in Dole, Jura, France to a Catholic family of a poor tanner.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1847">1847</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis attended and graduated from Ecole Normal in France. He studied sciences.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1849">1849</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis married Marie Laurent and they had five children.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1854">1854</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis began his work as a professor, and one of his duties included finding scientific solutions to common problems in the area.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1855">1855</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis was assigned the job of figuring out why common drinks like beer and wine became sour. He discovered the bacteria growing in the drinks, and figured out that if you boiled the drinks and then cooled them, it killed the bacteria.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1856">1856</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis returned to his old school, but this time as a professor.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1864">1864</time></p>
<p class="info">Pasteur went on to study where the bacteria growing in food and drinks were coming from, and he finally figured out it came from the air or environment.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1864">1864</time></p>
<p class="info">Many people in the 1800's still believed that germs were not harmful to people. Louis proved that germs were the cause of illness.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1865">1865</time></p>
<p class="info">After his success with the beverage industry, Louis was asked to work on the dying crops of local silk fields. He figured out the silkworms were ill, and introduced a way to fix the problem.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1868">1868</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis suffered from a small stroke and it left him partially paralyzed, but he was still able to experiment.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1879">1879</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis accidentally exposed chickens to a small form of cholera, and when the chickens didn't become sick he wanted to know why. He figured out the small exposure had worked as a vaccine against the actual sickness, and the vaccine was born.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1885">1885</time></p>
<p class="info">After finding vaccines for smallpox, TB, and cholera, Louis worked toward a vaccine for rabies. He found it in 1885.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1888">1888</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis' fame spread around the world, and soon donations began pouring in for the founding of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1895">1895</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis was given the Leeuwenhoek medal, the highest honor in microbiology.</p>
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<p class="date"><time datetime="1895">1895</time></p>
<p class="info">Louis Pasteur died in 1895. His paralysis had worsened after his stroke in 1868. Louis's contributions to society have saved millions of lives, and his legacy lives on today.</p>
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<h4>If you have time, you should read more about this incredibly influential man on his <a id="tribute-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur" target="_blank">Wikipedia entry</a>.</h4>
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