5+-+Wallace,+Pasteur,+and+Mendel

Pasteur
 * 1) Born Dec 27, 1822- Died Sep 28, 1895
 * 2) Lived in France
 * 3) Created vaccines for rabies and anthrax
 * 4) Chemist and Microbiologist
 * 5) Breakthroughs in causes and preventions of diseases
 * 6) Example- Puerpal fever
 * 7) Experiments supported germ theory of disease
 * 8) Most widely known for inventing pasteurization
 * 9) One of three founders of microbiology
 * 10) Made discoveries in chemistry, such as the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals

Alfred Rusel Wallace
 * 1) Born Jan 8, 1823- Died Nov 7, 1913
 * 2) Lived in England
 * 3) Naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist
 * 4) Proposes a theory of evolution due to natural selection that promoted Darwinism
 * 5) Idenitified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelagos into two parts
 * 6) Invented the Wallace effect- how natural selection contributes to specialization by encouraging development of barriers against hybridization
 * 7) One of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 1900's
 * 8) Called the "father of biogeography"

Gregor Mendel
 * 1) Born July 20, 1822- Died Jan 6, 1884
 * 2) Lived in Austria-Hungary
 * 3) Born into an ethnic German family
 * 4) Scientist and friar
 * 5) Founder of the new science of genetics
 * 6) Demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follow particular patterns
 * 7) Mendel's pea plant theories are now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance
 * 8) He was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century
 * 9) He formed the foundation of the modern science of genetics