Pasteurization is named after its inventor, French biologist Louis Pasteur. As large-scale production of milk became popularized in the 1800s, many people fell extremely ill from milk-borne illnesses.

Pasteurization, a process of heating milk to eliminate various pathogens that can cause diseases and foodborne illnesses, originated with Louis Pasteur and his devoted team of chemists in France ...

Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working ... But in 1860, years before he became famous for developing vaccines and heating milk to kill pathogens, Pasteur ventured to the top ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany ... hypothesising that germs caused disease and not vice versa. He of milk pasteurising fame was able to prove that milk went off ...