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Who was Louis Pasteur?

Germs, pasteurization, vaccines: how a French chemist proved the invisible was alive — and roughly doubled human life expectancy.

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For all of history, the greatest killer of human beings was invisible — not war, not famine, but the unseen world of microbes. Louis Pasteur dragged it into the light, and in doing so gave humanity more extra years of life than any conqueror ever gave it land.

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