Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologie

Louis Pasteur began his scientific research with crystallographic studies, which led him to distinguish different forms of tartaric acids and tartarates. His appointment to the University of Lille, in an industrial environment that led him to study amyl alcohols, helped to reorient his scientific ac...

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Main Author: This, Hervé
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Published: Académie des sciences 2022-09-01
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description Louis Pasteur began his scientific research with crystallographic studies, which led him to distinguish different forms of tartaric acids and tartarates. His appointment to the University of Lille, in an industrial environment that led him to study amyl alcohols, helped to reorient his scientific activity, but he remained mainly driven by his hypothesis that “molecular dissymmetry” was the prerogative of the living. Stumbling on the optical inactivity of certain organic compounds, he progressively abandoned a research for which chemical concepts were missing and which were only elaborated later, by others, to study fermentation, before going to explore the micro-organisms which caused them.
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spelling doaj-art-a7fa90cf23f24413add3a478ff1511e32025-02-07T13:31:13ZengAcadémie des sciencesComptes Rendus. Chimie1878-15432022-09-0125G123725110.5802/crchim.17910.5802/crchim.179Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologieThis, Hervé0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8778-4498Université Paris-Saclay, Inrae, AgroParisTech, UMR 0782 SayFood, 22 place de l’Agronomie, 91220, Palaiseau, France; Group of Molecular Gastronomy, Inrae-AgroParisTech International Centre for Molecular and Physical Gastronomy, FranceLouis Pasteur began his scientific research with crystallographic studies, which led him to distinguish different forms of tartaric acids and tartarates. His appointment to the University of Lille, in an industrial environment that led him to study amyl alcohols, helped to reorient his scientific activity, but he remained mainly driven by his hypothesis that “molecular dissymmetry” was the prerogative of the living. Stumbling on the optical inactivity of certain organic compounds, he progressively abandoned a research for which chemical concepts were missing and which were only elaborated later, by others, to study fermentation, before going to explore the micro-organisms which caused them.https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/chimie/articles/10.5802/crchim.179/Louis PasteurDissymétrieTartratesAlcools amyliquesFermentation
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Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologie
Comptes Rendus. Chimie
Louis Pasteur
Dissymétrie
Tartrates
Alcools amyliques
Fermentation
title Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologie
title_full Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologie
title_fullStr Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologie
title_full_unstemmed Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologie
title_short Louis Pasteur : de la physico-chimie à la biologie
title_sort louis pasteur de la physico chimie a la biologie
topic Louis Pasteur
Dissymétrie
Tartrates
Alcools amyliques
Fermentation
url https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/chimie/articles/10.5802/crchim.179/
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