2-359-920 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist, 1852. 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, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris.