Round 9: 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 (-5[1])awarded a 2008 Nobel Prize for discovering HIV. This scientist corresponded with John Tyndall and boiled meat broth in a swan neck (10[1])flask to disprove (10[2])the theory of spontaneous generation. A process named for this scientist involves heating a liquid (10[1])to 70 (10[1])degrees (10[2])Celsius (10[1])to inactivate enzymes that cause (10[1])spoilage. (10[1])For 10 points, name this French scientist and “father of microbiology,” who names a process that makes it safe (10[1])to drink milk. ■END■ (10[1])

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