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 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 (10[1])to disprove the theory (10[1])of spontaneous generation. (10[2])A process named (10[1])for this scientist (10[1])involves (10[1])heating a liquid (10[1])to 70 degrees Celsius to inactivate enzymes that cause spoilage. For 10 points, name this French scientist and “father of microbiology,” who names a process that makes it safe to drink milk. ■END■

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