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Louis Pasteur, French chemist and founder of modern bacteriology, 1887. Pasteur (1822-1895) holding rabbits used in his work on hydrophobia (rabies). Pasteur developed the pasteurisation process which kills pathogens in milk, wine and foods, and he produced vaccines against anthrax and rabies. In 1884 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Lille where he researched the reasons why some alcohols turn sour, discovering in the process, that by heating liquid to a certain temperature, the bacteria were killed. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, January 1887.