Education of Louis Pasteur

Answer 1

He studied in the college of Arbois and at Besançon, where he graduated in arts in 1840. As a student preparing for the prestigious école Normale Supérieure of Paris, he did not doubt his ability. When he gained admittance by passing fourteenth on the list, he refused entry; taking the examination again, he won third place and accepted. For his doctorate his attention was directed to the then obscure science of crystallography. This was to have a decisive influence on his career. OLA

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