pasteur

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Pasteur
    n 1: French chemist and biologist whose discovery that
         fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the
         process of pasteurization (1822-1895) [syn: {Pasteur},
         {Louis Pasteur}]

from Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date

PASTEUR

Doctor, discoverer.  Experimented with mad dogs until
he came to the conclusion they should be shot or chained. A
subway station in Paris has been named after him.

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