This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, printed material, research notes and drawings, and photographs related to French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895).

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist. Pasteur worked with fermentation, contributed to the development of the first vaccines for diseases such as rabies and anthrax, and debunked the myth of spontaneous generation; the process known as pasteurization is named after him. Pasteur died, after a series of strokes, on September 28, 1895.

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