Germ theory (Pasteur)
Teoría microbiana: fermentación, refutación de la generación espontánea y enfermedad
- Date
- 1857-1865 · confidence high
- Place
- École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
- Credited to
- Louis Pasteur
- People
- 👤 Louis Pasteur1822–1895
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
He demonstrated that fermentation is the work of living microorganisms, refuted spontaneous generation with swan-necked flasks (1861), and showed that microbes cause disease (silkworm pébrine). The basis of medical microbiology.
What it led to
- pasteurisation
- Lister's antisepsis
- medical bacteriology and Koch's postulates
- attenuated vaccines
- safe food industry
Built on
- Microorganisms (Leeuwenhoek)1676
- Spallanzani's heat sterilization experiments1765
- Yeast as the living agent of fermentation1837
- Spallanzani
- Leeuwenhoek
- Schwann on yeasts