Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

French biologist and chemist Louis Pasteur's work in the causes and cures for disease supported the germ theory of disease; he invented the first vaccine for rabies, and he invented the process for treating milk and wine called "pasteurization" that is named for him.

Credit: unidentified photographer, before 1895; from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries [source].

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