I enjoyed having this presentation and watching the film on Louis Pasteur as an educational experience before we go abroad and are able to visit his museum. Louis Pasteur seems to have been a truly interesting man with many passions involving science and dedication to his beliefs. He was portrayed as well-tempered and passionate in the film. Overall, I found his greatest accomplishments to be his beliefs regarding sterilization of objects (or rather pasteurization), the anthrax vaccine, and the process of experimentation, all of which are important components of the scientific field today. I find it to be quite respectable that his motivations were for the improvement of mankind and not fame and fortune, but also that he did majority of his work in unfavorable laboratory conditions alone and was not accepted into a proper laboratory until later in life. I am always impressed by original thought in the scientific field, particularly to this extent.
I appreciated the drawings and descriptions that Dr. Alber gave complementary to her presentation. They allowed for greater and easier comprehension of the content. This presentation enhanced my appreciation of Pasteur’s work and accomplishments. Previously, I had not realized how much he had done for science as a whole, the medical field, and microbiology.