Louis Pasteur
1822–95
French chemist and microbiologist. Professor of chemistry, Strasbourg University, 1849–54. Professor of chemistry and dean of the science faculty, Lille University, 1854–7. Administrator and director of scientific studies, Ecole normale, Paris, 1857–67; director of the laboratory of physiological chemistry, 1867–88. Professor of chemistry, the Sorbonne, Paris, 1867–74. Director of the Institut Pasteur, Paris, 1888–95. Renowned for his work on fermentation and for experiments providing evidence against the theory of spontaneous generation. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1869.
Sources
Dictionnaire universel des contemporains
DSB
Record of the Royal Society of London.
Bibliography
Dictionnaire universel des contemporains: Dictionnaire universel des contemporains contenant toutes les personnes notables de la France et des pays étrangers … Ouvrage rédigé et continuellement tenu à jour avec le concours d’écrivains et des savants de tous les pays. Edited by Louis Gustave Vapereau. Paris: Libraire Hachette. 1858. 3d edition, 1865. 4th edition, 1870. 5th edition, 1880. 6th edition, 1893.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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