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Proposing the germ theory of disease, in which diseases arise from naturally existing microorganisms, not from spontaneous generation, the supposed formation of disease-causing organisms from nonliving matter
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Inventing the process of pasteurization
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Developing a vaccine for rabies
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Career
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1848 Taught physics at Dijon
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1849 Taught physics at the University of Strasbourg
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1854-57 Taught chemistry, and was dean of sciences, at the University of Lille
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1857-67 Served as director of Scientific Studies at the École Normal Supérieure
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1863-68 Taught chemistry, geology, and physics at the École des Beaux-Arts
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1888 Became director of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, which was created to further his research
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Did You Know
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Pasteur first tried his experimental rabies vaccine on a nine-year-old boy bitten by a rabid dog. The boy, who would likely have died otherwise, survived.
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Pasteur saved France's silk industry from disaster when he discovered that some silkworms were infected with a disease-causing microorganism, and recommended that those infected be destroyed.
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