Louis Pasteur ( 1822 - 1895 )

Birth: Dole, Jura, France (27 December 1822) Death: Chateau Villeneuve-l'Etang, near Paris, France (28 September 1895) Burial: Crypt, Pasteur Institute, Paris Research Field: Crystallography, chemistry, microbiology, immunology Education: Arbois; Besancon; Ecole Normale, Paris Career: Professor of Physics, Lycee, Dijon (1848); Professor of Chemistry, Strasbourg (1852); carried out fundamental work on fermentations (1850s-1870s); studied infectious diseases (from 1877); Pasteur Institute, Paris, was founded in his honour (1888) Membership: Foreign Member Election Date: 29/04/1869 Medals/Prizes: Rumford Medal 1856; Copley Medal 1874.