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Pasteur

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Pas·teur  (ps-tûr, pä-str), Louis 1822-1895.
French chemist who founded modern microbiology, invented the process of pasteurization, and developed vaccines for anthrax, rabies, and chicken cholera.
Pas·teuri·an adj.
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Noun1.PasteurPasteur - French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)
Louis Pasteur
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