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Noun: Pasteur  pa'stur
  1. French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)
    - Louis Pasteur

Type of: biologist, chemist, life scientist

Encyclopedia: Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895