Pasteur
LOUIS, a French chemist and physicist; born in Dôle, Jura, in 1822; educated at Jena University and the Ecole Normale, Paris, where in 1847 he took his degree as doctor. The following year he was appointed Professor of Physics in Strassburg, where he devoted much research to the subject of fermentation; in 1857 he received the appointment of dean in the Faculty of Sciences, Lille; in 1863 he became Professor of Geology, Chemistry, and Physics at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, PASTON LETTERS Paris; and in 1867 Professor of Chemistry at the Sorbonne. He became a member of the French Academy in 1882.
He has been especially successful in proving the part played by microbes in fermentation and decomposition, in introducing a successful treatment of disease in silkworms and cattle, and has achieved great success in his efforts to check hydrophobia by means of inoculation. To enable him to deal with this disease under the best conditions a Pasteur Institute was opened in Paris, where patients are received from all parts of LOUIS PASTEUR Europe. A similar institution, in New York City, has proved very successful.
He died in Paris, Sept. 28, 1895.