Pasteur's Theory Of Microbiology

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Microbiology began when people learned the making of form pieces of glass and combined them to produce magnification enough to enable to see microbes driving in 13th century. Roger bacon observed the disease produced by invisible living creatures. This concept observed by girilamo fracastoro of various but these was had prove 100 years after the fracastoro a german Jesuit athanasices kircher had given the term worms to that invisible living creatures which he had seen in plague victims. Although his description created he also had no proof. However, but kircher was the first person to recognize the significance of the bacteria and microbes in diseases. In 1664 for the first the word cell was coined by Robert hook in his descriptions of fine structure of cork. Later he also …show more content…

Son of a sergent in nepholian. Pasteur worked as a porttrail painter and teacher before he began to study chemistry in his spare times. These studies led to post him in several french universities as a professor of chemistry and his contributions to wine and silk industry made him a giant scientist. Pasteur approached to the field of fermentation had many fruitfully practical applications. He was the founder of germ theory of fermentation. In 1861 Pasteur belong to study the manufacture of vinegar his views on the theory of manufacturing vinegar was opposed by M leibig conclusion was the vinegar was formed without the help of mycoderma and he assured that nothing expect air and surface of wood and charcoal could act on alcohol. Pasteur answered that he taken the barrels which was long been productive letting it stand with boiling water during half hour after heat removed that water to start the production process again. According to Leibig theory barrel should operate as before and Pasteur started that it not produce vinegar for a long time until new mycoderma will have grown again the surface of wood shavings. This boiling water would have killed the old

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