Pasteur: Father of Germ Theory

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The Student

Born in 1822 in Dole, France, Louis Pasteur was the son of a tanner. As a young student in Paris he showed an extraordinary gift for both chemistry and art — filling notebooks with meticulous sketches alongside precise scientific observations. He was obsessive, tenacious, and driven by a single conviction: that nature's deepest secrets could be unlocked by the patient eye.