
Louis Pasteur was French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. On this day Louis Pasteur began his work on virulent anthrax bacteria in his laboratory at Lille, France. He cultivated bacteria from the blood of animals infected with anthrax. When he inoculated animals with the bacteria, anthrax occurred, proving that the bacteria was the cause of the disease.



