CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Pasteur has received more than 8,116,951 page views. His biography is available in 156 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Louis Pasteur is the 2nd most popular chemist (down from 1st in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from France (down from 6th 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 2 out of 602. Before him are Alfred Nobel. After him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber.

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Contemporaries

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, Francis Galton, Robert Luther, Rutherford B. Hayes, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, and Charles Hermite. 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, Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, José Martí, Adam Opel, and Friedrich Miescher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Pasteur ranks 8 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis XIV of France (1638), René Descartes (1596), Blaise Pascal (1623), Joan of Arc (1412), Voltaire (1694), and Victor Hugo (1802). After him are Louis XVI of France (1754), Claude Monet (1840), Jules Verne (1828), Montesquieu (1689), Louis XV of France (1710), and Molière (1622).

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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), Paul Sabatier (1854), Victor Grignard (1871), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Black (1728), and Joseph Proust (1754).

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