This book traces the childhood and young adult years of the renowned French microbiologist whose interest in chemistry resulted in the process called pasteurization.

Louis Pasteur and the Fight Against Germs (Science Readers: Life Science)

Connect content-area literacy and science with differentiated readers featuring lab activities and profiles of related scientitists.
French scientist Louis Pasteur has been called the founder of modern medicine. He proved that germs spread disease, and his work has saved millions of lives. A university chemistry professor, Pasteur is best known for discovering pasteurization, a process by which bacteria and molds are killed when liquids are heated. The process was named for him and is used today.