Who discovered the sterilization process?

Charles Chamberland, Louis Pasteur's pupil and collaborator, developed the first pressure steam sterilizer, or autoclave in 1876. In 1876, John Tyndall, an English physicist, discovered heat-resistant bacteria.Mar 31, 2010 read more

Sterilization (or sterilisation) refers to any process that eliminates, removes, kills, or deactivates all forms of life and other biological agents (such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, spore forms, prions, unicellular eukaryotic organisms such as Plasmodium, etc.) present in a specified region, such as a surface, a volume of fluid, medication, or in a compound such as biological culture media. read more