12. Louis Pasteur
- Most Famous For Inventing: Pasteurization, Germ Theory, Vaccines For Rabies & Anthrax
Before French chemist & biologist Louis Pasteur came along, drinking milk or wine was a gamble. He invented a treatment to rid both of possible bacterial contamination. This makes them safer and able to last forever nearly, as well as many of the products they are used in. Pasteurization as it came to be called, is now in use all over the world. Yet Pasteur did far more than this.