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Louis Pasteur

1822 - 1895

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Louis Pasteur (, French: [lwi pastœʁ] ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) 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" (together with Robert Koch; the latter epithet also attributed to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Pasteur is the most popular chemist (up from 2nd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from France (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular French Chemist.

Louis Pasteur is most famous for his work in the field of microbiology. He is credited with discovering the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Pasteur ranks 1 out of 602. After him are Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Emil Fischer.

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Among people born in 1822, Louis Pasteur ranks 1. After him are Ulysses S. Grant, Gregor Mendel, Heinrich Schliemann, Frédéric Passy, Rudolf Clausius, César Franck, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Francis Galton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander Mackenzie, and Prince Napoléon Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1895, Louis Pasteur ranks 1. After him are Friedrich Engels, Alexandre Dumas fils, Berthe Morisot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, José Martí, Franz von Suppé, Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Adam Opel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Pasteur ranks 9 out of 6,770. Before him are René Descartes (1596), Blaise Pascal (1623), Joan of Arc (1412), Louis XVI of France (1754), Victor Hugo (1802), and Voltaire (1694). After him are Claude Monet (1840), Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Montesquieu (1689), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Pasteur ranks 1. After him are Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), and Jacques Monod (1910).

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