Pasteur, Louis

(1822–95), a scientific genius and gifted scholar, has left a body of work which impinges on physics, chemistry, microbiology, agronomy, and medicine. On the centenary of his birth in 1922, the Institut Pasteur in Paris published a monograph on his principal discoveries listed under the following headings:

• 1847: Molecular dissymmetry

• 1857: Fermentations

• 1862: Supposedly spontaneous generations

• 1863: Study of wines

• 1865: Silkworm diseases

• 1871: Study of beers

• 1877: Virus diseases

• 1880: Viral vaccines

• 1885: Rabies protection