Pasteur

Pasteur definition - medical

Pas·teur (păs-tûrˈ, pä-stœrˈ), Louis 1822-1895.

French chemist who founded modern microbiology, invented pasteurization, and developed vaccines for anthrax, rabies, and chicken cholera.

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