The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. The institute was founded on 4 June 1887 and inaugurated on 14 November 1888.
Medical Center of Institut Pasteur, Paris, Rue de Vaugirard
Institut Pasteur in Bandung, Dutch East Indies Under the Guided Democracy period, the Indonesian government nationalized this branch into Bio Farma.
Institut Pasteur in Tunis, ca.1900
The building hosting the Museum and the funeral chapel of Pasteur
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 named after him. His research in chemistry led to remarkable breakthroughs in the understanding of the causes and preventions of diseases, which laid down the foundations of hygiene, public health and much of modern medicine. Pasteur's works are credited with saving millions of lives through the developments of vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern bacteriology and has been honored as the "father of bacteriology" and the "father of microbiology".
Photograph by Nadar
The house in which Pasteur was born, Dole
Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist, 1878, by A Gerschel
Pasteur experimenting in his laboratory
