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

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