The Man Who Conquered Disease (L0UIS PASTEUR )
(27 Dec. 1822 - 28Sep.1895) Born : 27 December, 1822 (Dole), France Died. : 28 September, 1895 (Marnes-la-coquette), France Invention: Pasteurization Education Ecole Normale Superieure (1847), Ecole Normale Superieure(1843-1845) Awards Copley Medal. Rumford Medal Montyon Prize Leeuwenhoek Medal Albert Medal In the 1800s, the bite of a dog with rabies meant certain death for the person who had been bitten . In 1855, when a rabid dog bit a boy bit a boy called Joseph Meister,his mother was desperate. She went to the only man she thought might be able to cure her son. Pasteur had found that rabies was caused by a virus - a disease-causing agent so small it could not be seen, even under a microscope.He had already worked out a way to defeat the rabies virus in animals. But he had never tried his treatment on humans. Pasteur treated Joseph, and Joseph became the first person to be cured of rabies. Pasteur de...