In memory of
Louis Pasteur
Chemist who proved that germs cause disease
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 72 years
- Resting place
- Crypt of the Institut Pasteur, rue du Docteur-Roux, Paris, France
Pasteur showed that fermentation and disease are caused by micro-organisms, not spontaneous generation. He developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies and gave his name to the heat treatment that made milk safe to drink.
He refused burial at the Panthéon; instead he lies in a Byzantine mosaic crypt beneath the institute he founded, which still carries out research a few metres above him.
This page was written by the site, from public historical records.
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