Pasteur's Fermentation Laboratory

In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind

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Born in Dole, Jura, France. My father was a tanner and decorated sergeant in Napoleon's army. Mediocre student as a boy. But at the Ecole Normale Superieure, I fell in love with crystallography. Discovered molecular chirality at 25. That led to fermentation, germ theory, pasteurization, and vaccines. I proved life does not arise spontaneously with swan-neck flask experiments. Developed vaccines for anthrax, cholera, and rabies. The rabies vaccine on young Joseph Meister in 1885 -- if it failed, the boy would die. It worked. Tip: The prepared mind comes from working 16-hour days, six days a week, for 40 years. There are no shortcuts.