2-358-622 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist, 1893. Pasteur (1822-1895), was a pioneering scientist who founded the science of microbiology, proved the germ theory of disease, invented pasteurisation, and developed vaccines for rabies and several other diseases. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1925, 9th album, Editions MD, Paris.