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Pasteur
[ pa-stur; French pah-stœr ]
noun
- Louis [loo, -ee, lwee], 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
Pasteur
/ pastœr /
noun
- PasteurLouis18221895MFrenchSCIENCE: chemistSCIENCE: bacteriologist Louis (lwi). 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist. His discovery that the fermentation of milk and alcohol was caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization. He also devised methods of immunization against anthrax and rabies and pioneered stereochemistry
Pasteur
/ păs-tûr′ /
- French chemist who founded modern microbiology. His early work with fermentation led him to invent the process of pasteurization. Pasteur established that microorganisms cause communicable diseases and infections.
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- Pas·teuri·an adjective
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Her will dictated that the proceeds went to the Pasteur Institute in Paris for its pioneering fight against AIDS.
Ledit Patriarche y alla, & avec vn truchement fit envers lui ce qui estoit de l'office d'un bon Pasteur.
Et de verit vn Pasteur est excusable qui manque faire chose dont il n'a connoissance.
This is done by pasteurization, a method named after the French bacteriologist Louis Pasteur.
Chief Pasteur walked over to where Mellon lay and took his stethoscope out of his little black bag.
Then came Pasteur, who repeated the experiments of his predecessors and elaborated and confirmed them.
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