Important Events of December – 27
Louis Pasteur Birthday
Birth:
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, Jura, France, to a Catholic family of a poor tanner.
- Pasteur was appointed professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg in 1848, and became the chair of chemistry in 1852.
- In 1854, he was named dean of the new faculty of sciences at University of Lille, where he began his studies on fermentation.
- In 1867, the Ecole Normale’s laboratory of physiological chemistry was created at Pasteur’s request, and he was the laboratory’s director from 1867 to 1888.
- In Paris, he established the Pasteur Institute in 1887, in which he was its director for the rest of his life.
- In Pasteur’s early work as a chemist, beginning at the Ecole Normale Superieure, and continuing at Strasbourg and Lille, he examined the chemical, optical and crystallographic properties of a group of compounds known as tartrates.
Death:
He was died on September 28, 1895
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