This is a good one to be studying.

Today we get all upset when there is some problem with our food that gets a few people killed … like 10 or 20, out of the millions who can consume all kinds of food safely.

Well that safely is thanks to inventors like Louis Pasteur.

Thanks to him, food very rarely gets spoiled, unless people are careless, or we have power outage for a while.

Pasteurization is only one of the great things we can thank Louis Pasteur for.

He figured out many of the mechanisms of life.

Many industries and professions were born to carry out his discoveries.

When someone goes into the hospital, we generally expect the doctors to make them well, and consider the problem of many germs in hospitals to be very bad. Our worst problem today is how to pay for health care. Well before Pasteur, your odds of surviving the doctors were pretty small.

There are several horrible diseases we now have cures for, thanks to Louis Pasteur. You have no idea how many people died from those diseases before he came along and saved the world in so many ways.

His theory about microscopic organisms as being carriers of disease, is probably the single most important basis of modern medicine.

It applies to the health of farm animals, and our pets, in addition to human beings.

He can also be thought to be the father of modern biology and biochemistry.

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/119.html

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Louis_Pasteur.html

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpasteur.htm

http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine/People/Pasteur__Louis__1822_1895_/