Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, France. When he was five years old, his family moved to Arbois, France. He attended college in Paris and received a doctorate in science in 1847. He began teaching chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where he met his wife, Marie Laurent, who shared Pasteur's interest in science. Marie and Pasteur married in 1849 and had five children, two of whom survived to adulthood. Pasteur eventually began teaching chemistry and became dean of the school of science at the University of Lille. While Pasteur was in Lille, a local distiller sought help in controlling the fermentation of beet sugar. Pasteur realized that fermentation was not a simple chemical process but one that involved living organisms. This led him to discover that fermentation, infection and spoilage were the result of the action of microbes. The first article he published was about lactic acid and its role in souring milk. He spent many years studying microbes and proving that they do not originate from within matter, but that they come from outside. Him possibly...