Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was name
Photograph by Nadar, 1895
The house in which Pasteur was born, Dole
Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist, 1878, by A Gerschel
Pasteur experimenting in his laboratory
Marie Pasteur
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Marie Pasteur, née Laurent, was the scientific assistant and co-worker of her husband, the famous French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur.
Louis Pasteur
…briefly as professor of physics at the Dijon Lycée in 1848, he became professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where he met and courted Marie Laurent, daughter of the university's rector in 1849. They were married on 29 May 1849, and together had five children, only two of whom survived to adulthood…
Pasteur in 1899