The Art of Organic Chemistry: Unit 7 Lab 60 ptsStep 1: Read the NYT article below about the importance of the artist’s eye inorganic chemistry.NY Time article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/science/louis-pasteur-chirality-chemistry.html byJoanna Klein June 14, 2017How Pasteur’s Artistic Insight Changed ChemistryCrystals of tartaric acid. Louis Pasteur was studying a version of this byprod
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The Art of Organic Chemistry: Unit 7 Lab 60 pts
Step 1: Read the NYT article below about the importance of the artist’s eye in
organic chemistry.
NY Time article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/science/louis-pasteur-chirality-chemistry.html by
Joanna Klein June 14, 2017
How Pasteur’s Artistic Insight Changed Chemistry
Crystals of tartaric acid. Louis Pasteur was studying a version of this byproduct of wine production, paratartaric acid, when he articulated the
property of chirality.Credit...Pasieka/Science Source
If you’ve ever had milk, you’re probably familiar with the work of Louis Pasteur, the 19th-century
French chemist and biologist. He prevented diseases, developing a process — widely known as
pasteurization — for killing microbes in milk and wine. He also created vaccines for rabies and anthrax.
And his ideas led to the acceptance of germ theory, the notion that tiny organisms caused diseases like
cholera. Pasteur even helped us brew better beer.
“He’s considered the benefactor of mankind,” said Joseph Gal, a chemist and professor emeritus at the
University of Colorado.
But before all that, Pasteur was an artist. And without his early creative explorations, he may not have
made one of his most monumental, but least talked about, discoveries in science, one with far-reaching
implications.
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