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What did Pasteur vaccinate sheep against in 1881?
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Which gas did Pasteur discover kills some microbes?
Answer: Oxygen
Why: Pasteur called these microbes anaerobic, meaning living without air, and the oxygen-needing kind aerobic.
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Which subject earned Pasteur a 'mediocre' grade in 1842?
Answer: Chemistry
Why: Just five years later he earned his doctorate, with theses in chemistry and physics.
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Salts of which acid showed Pasteur that molecules can be mirror images?
Answer: Tartaric acid
Why: He sorted the tiny left-handed and right-handed crystals into two piles by hand, using tweezers.
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Which animal bit the Smolensk villagers Pasteur treated in 1886?
Answer: Wolf
Why: Wolf bites were generally seen as fatal back then, yet most of the group survived Pasteur's treatment.
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What did Pasteur send back to the University of Bonn in 1871?
Answer: His honorary degree
Why: Bonn had made Pasteur an honorary doctor of medicine only three years earlier, in 1868.
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Which chemical weakened the vaccine in Pasteur's 1881 public trial?
Answer: Potassium dichromate
Why: The process resembled one developed by Pasteur's rival Henri Toussaint, a veterinarian in Toulouse.
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