Round 8: Tossup 2

This scientist and collaborator of Marie Laurent (“laur-ON”) told his family never to reveal his laboratory notebooks to anyone as he often gave misleading accounts of his discoveries. Researchers from a European institute named for this scientist were jointly awarded a 2008 Nobel Prize for discovering HIV. This scientist corresponded (-5[1])with John Tyndall and boiled meat broth in a swan neck (10[1])flask (10[2])to disprove the theory of spontaneous (10[1])generation. A process named for this scientist (10[1])involves heating a liquid to 70 (10[1])degrees Celsius to inactivate enzymes (10[1])that cause spoilage. For 10 points, name this French scientist and “father of microbiology,” who names a process that makes it (10[1])safe to drink milk. ■END■ (10[1])

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